Verification of International Environmental Agreements

JH Ausubel, DG Victor. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 17: 1–43 1992

…Organizations. Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press 6. Nye, J. S. 1987. Nuclear learning and U.S.-Soviet security regimes. Int. Organ. 41:371-402 7. Young, O. R. 1989. The politics of international regime formation: Managing natural resources…

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…and Development Review 22(3):531-545, 1996. [xiii] www.swissmetro.com [xiv] J. H. Ausubel, The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects, Fisheries 26 (7): 33-36, 2001. [xv] D. G. Victor and J. H. Ausubel, Restoring the Forests, Foreign Affairs 79(6): 127-144, 2000….

Does Energy Policy Matter?

…in the year 1931 in his wonderful 1949 book, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort. About 350 couples lived 1 block apart, about 100 lived 5 blocks apart,…

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…Crum, The Age Structure of the Corporate System, University of California, Berkeley, 1953. 38 – JH Ausubel, The Liberation of the Environment, Daedalus 125(3):I–17; JH Ausubel, Can Technology Spare the Earth?, American Scientist 84(2):166–178. 39…

Thanks to the Next 1000 Years participants

Thanks to everyone who participated in our conference 9-10 October at The Rockefeller University on “The Next 1000 Years.” The conference inspired us. We are pondering what to do with…

Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets

JH Ausubel, Arnulf Grübler. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 50: 113–131 1995

…holidays”2 -1,744 -8,534 -10,278 -720 -3,280 -4,000 Shorter/Longer Work career3 +11,674 -13,779 -2,105 -2,675 +19,268 +16,593 TOTAL -26,830 -34,810 -61,640 -22,240 -710 -22,950 1Changes in hours worked per week (lower…

The Great Reversal: Nature’s Chance to Restore Land and Sea

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 22: 289–302 2000

…(118th edition.) Washington, DC. [1] Ausubel JH. For a discussion covering energy, materials, and other aspects along with land use see The Liberation of the Environment. Daedalus 1996;125(3):1-17. [2] Waggoner PE, Ausubel JH, Wernick IK. Lightening…

The Environment Since 1970

JH Ausubel, DG Victor, IK Wernick. Consequences: The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change 1 (3): 2–15 1995

[NOTE This is a draft of a paper that has recently appeared (slightly modified) in the journal Consequences: The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change 1(3):2-15, 1995] A generation marks the average timespan between…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…Trends worldwide and in Austria, International Part (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, 1989). 22. Economic Planning Agency Economic Survey of Japan, 1987-1988 (Tokyo, 1989). 23. Statistiches Bundesamt Wirtschaft und Statistik 4/89 (Metzler-Poeschl, Stuttgart, 1989)….