Industrial Ecology: Some Directions for Research

IK Wernick, JH Ausubel. With the Vishnu Group, The Rockefeller University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1997

…Human Environment, Rockefeller University https://phe.rockefeller.edu World Resources Institute (databases) https://www.wri.org/wri/ National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education at the University of Michigan https://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/ind.ecol.html The Technology, Business and Environment Program at…

Viagra and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Always alert for surprising ways that technology may spare environment, we are delighted by papers showing that Viagra could spare threatened species in general and in particular ones exploited in…

Mitigation and Adaptation for Climate Change: Answers and Questions

JH Ausubel. The Bridge 23 (3): 15–30 1993 Also pp. 557-584 in Costs, Impacts, and Benefits of CO2 Mitigation, Y. Kaya, N. Nakicenovic, W.D. Nordhaus, and F.L. Toth, eds., International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1993.

…domed stadiums for athletic events, climate matters less. Figure 6: Tornado death rate: Actual (solid line) and fitted trend (dashed line) for the United States, 1917-1990. Source: National Safety Council, 1992….

Verification of International Environmental Agreements

JH Ausubel, DG Victor. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 17: 1–43 1992

…that banned or more stringently controlled species were being killed and processed at sea, then mislabelled before the ship returned to port. The IOS seems to have rectified that problem,…

Community Risk Profiles: Summary

…that expert evaluation contrasted with a parallel listing and ranking of environmental problems based on a public survey conducted by the Roper Organization. The risk posed by hazardous waste sites…

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Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 14: 187–198 1992

…in relation to the low woods, flat lands, and water around. We visited the so-called “Red Forest,” the most damaged ecological zone. We visited several temporary waste disposals. Some 600…

Simulating the Academy: Toward Understanding Colleges and Universities as Dynamic Systems

JH Ausubel, R Herman, WF Massy, SV Massy. What Higher Education is Doing Right, W.F. Massy and J.W. Meyerson, eds., Princeton University 107–120 1997 120

…out of reach. Three kinds of pre-programmed events punctuate the passage of time: Scheduled events marking milestones or providing periodic information for which no response is required: e.g., quarterly and…

Can Technology Spare the Earth?

JH Ausubel. Am Sci 84 (2): 166–178 1996 Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.

…including tractors, seeds, chemicals and irrigation, joined through timely information flows and better organized markets, raised yields to feed billions more without clearing new fields. In fact, since mid-century global…