…several government agencies and trade associations, has begun a financial exchange for trading scrap materials. Other exchanges such as the National Materials Exchange Network (NMEN) and the Global Recycling Network…
…and knowledge structure elitism, social stratification, and diversity academic standards (e.g., admission policies, attrition rates, grade inflation, sports) the rise of foreign student population and links to foreign firms The…
…An example of public access to environmental data is the Right To Know Network (RTKNET). Established in 1989 by “OMB Watch,” a group that tracks decisions of the White House…
…net costs (or benefits), but also for the levels of uncertainty surrounding them. Here the “Precautionary Principle” for environmental management comes into play. The Precautionary Principle is a legal term…
…diffusion processes. Thus, the logistic is a useful generic model for both systems where the mechanisms are understood and where the mechanisms might be hidden. The continuous nonlinear ordinary differential…
…clapping belts. But the network of beams, blocks, cords, and drums for transmitting t he steam power to the machinery on the floor encumbered, endangered, and clamored. The electric motor…
…confining toxic groundwater plumes, I never found that controversial result surprising. In 1988, a state study found no statistical link between Valley birth defects and the aerial spraying of malathion…
We are pleased to read that North Carolina-based company NET Power Breaks Ground on Demonstration Plant for World’s First Emissions-Free, Low-Cost Fossil Fuel Power Technology. The NET Power technology, which…
…avoid in each link of the chain, the thermodynamic efficiency of the total system in practice could probably never exceed 50 percent. Still, in 1995 we are early in the…
…its linkages to other issues, the roles and functions of international organizations, the processes of bargaining and rule-maldng, and the influence of domestic politics (1-3). Scholars also theorize how regimes…