…food webs, limiting factors, energy and material budgets) and rules (e.g., Cope’s rule that increase in body size confers adaptive advantages, the least work principle). Also valuable might be an…
…and multiple pathways. The models would link environmental and biological data with information on human activity to estimate total human exposures to various chemicals and combinations and thus contribute to…
…views my city through a soda straw. They only look at one thing at a time, for instance, underground storage tanks, or stormwater runoff, drinking water, trucker safety. . ….
…poles. Even today human rickshaws carry freight and passengers in Calcutta and elsewhere. Horses can run faster and longer than people. They can sustain 20 km per hour for several…
…and sponsored by the Program for the Human Environment. The conference, titled “Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment”, brought together leading scientists in disciplines as diverse as philosophy and agricultural…
…to a second question: what distinguishes the last half-century or so with regard to environment and technology. The years around 1970 marked the maximum rate of growth of human population…
…industry, and less than 1/10th for cities. Hydroelectric generation currently uses (but does not consume) 2.6 times the average runoff in the conterminous US by running water through several turbines…
…gradually lost the competition with coal to fuel London and other multiplying and concentrating populations, even when wood was abundant. Coal had a long run at the top of the…
…concerns. Improved regimes for transport, storage, and disposal of nuclear wastes have been designed but not fully tested. On a local scale, many trends in environmental quality are well- documented,…
…assist adaptation. My focus is on adaptability of human systems, including agriculture. Adaptability of ecosystems and the ethics of human behaviour that brings about large scale transformations of the Earth…