Cosmos Prize photos

…Prize web page now has excellent photos and other material about the award of the 2011 prize to the Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life. See: https://www.expo-cosmos.or.jp/album_e.html…

Full PDR issue online

The entire issue of Population and Development Review with our article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will…

Polartide.org

…California as well. You are contributing, with your clicks, to the way the artwork sounds. More info at https://polartide.org/help.html Team: Greg Niemeyer (Data Artist); Chris Chafe (Composer); Perrin Meyer (Producer));…

Garrison & Levinson transport book

…good works, the U MN group maintains a useful page about the Kepler of transportation science, the late Yacov Zahavi:Â https://www.surveyarchive.org/zahavi.html Zahavi had a tremendous, lasting influence on the thinking…

DNA Barcoding

…For an emphasis on the earlier period of barcode science, see the Barcode of Life homepage at https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode. We continue to be keenly interested in understanding and visualizing the totality of…

On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…Small-scale traditional “community forestry” could also deliver a small fraction of industrial wood. Such arrangements, in which forest dwellers, often indigenous peoples, earn revenue from commercial timber, can provide essential…

Restoring the Forests

DG Victor, JH Ausubel. Foreign Affairs 79 (6): 127–144 2000

…that binding treaties work best when they include detailed commitments with which governments can comply. A binding instrument is ill suited to forests, however, because governments — and the people…