…less free time. IV. Work Time versus Non-Work Time Formal work is one aspect of social life. Obviously, if work time shrinks, the times of life that are not part…
…50-fold increase in traffic has come with a very small increase in the fleet. For a long time the number of commercial aeroplanes was stable around 4000, and in recent…
…homepage: https://www.elsevier.com/locate/estoc Scrap Recycling and Processing, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, A bi-monthly trade journal for the scrap reprocessing industry. Homepage: https://www.isri.org/pubcat00.htm#scrapmag Selected Data Sources (General and Specific) General Organization for…
…woman per lifetime). It is customary to give the TFR in births per woman, in this case approximately 5.3 births per woman per lifetime. Thus, the Cumulative ASFR divided by…
…traffic. A 2.7% per year growth in passenger kilometers traveled means not only doubling of mobility in 25 years but 16 times in a century, which is the rational time…
…case if nonwhaling nations were, extensively involved in the IOS. The second case of intrusive monitoring is the anytime/anywhere inspection system of the Antarctic Treaty. In both cases, compliance may…
…The Case of Energy,” Dædalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996). 13Jesse H. Ausubel and Arnulf Grübler, “Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets,” Technological Forecasting…
…it to the Kyoto protocol. My colleague Paul Waggoner and I call the approach the ImPACT identity. Impact equals people, P, times affluence or income, A, times consumer behavior C,…
…proven innocent,” or, in Robert Frosch’s words, the injunction, “Don’t do anything for the first time.” It is curious that this “natural” warming is ignored. The preference for addressing “man-made”…
…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…