…Starting Materials for Industrial Processes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 89(3):821-826. National Academy of Sciences, 1989, Materials Science and Engineering for the 1990s, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C….
…groups countries by income and is the leading source for global and national economic data; British Petroleum’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy is an authoritative source on world energy…
…world population of one billion hogs alone would require about one hundred million hectares, more than 1/5 the land of the USA. Running wild, growing herds denude landscapes. To decouple…
…major research programs as the World Climate Program and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. An obscure fact is that in 1983 I was the scribe of Toward an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program: A…
…National Academy of Sciences, 1992, Policy Implications of Global Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base, National Academy, Washington, DC. National Safety Council, 1992, Accident Facts, 1992 Edition, National Safety Council, Itasca,…
…comment. Most obviously, the Russian Revolution and World War II literally drove Russians back into the woods to collect their fuel. Yet, these extreme shocks were later absolutely absorbed. By…
…coordination of scientific research that seems the exception rather Um rule. The Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) helps integrate scientific research…
…NACCHO. National Research Council. 1983. Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. National Research Council. 1991. Environmental Epidemiology: Public Health and Hazardous Wastes….
…subsidies. Moreover, the G-8 is the only high-profile international forum — other than the more inclusive International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and U.N. — that engages Russia, the world’s…
…effects of population and wealth. The change in absolute national consumption of a product is simply the sum of the three components of the identity. The national statistics that we…