Restoring the Forests
…place. Studies by forest experts in Finland reveal that by the 1980s, wooded areas were increasing in all major temperate and boreal forests. These mid- and high-latitude forests account for…
…place. Studies by forest experts in Finland reveal that by the 1980s, wooded areas were increasing in all major temperate and boreal forests. These mid- and high-latitude forests account for…
…locomotive did in the nineteenth century, halving the cost of land transport. The railroads penetrated the great land masses of North America and Australasia. Their operations were little affected by…
…use of the new data to explain and predict changes in populations and relations among them would probably cost little. A major outcome of the program would be an on-line…
…this time, I want to make another point about predictability of technological evolution. Industries such as the chemical and airframe industries use learning curves giving the cost evolution of a…
…fisheries, which contributed to their decline. Canada and Spain came to the brink of serious conflict over the cod on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland in the early 1990s. Widespread…
…take known risks (such as smokers)? Are addicts volunteers? 15. Cost. Theoretically, decisions to reduce risk are supposed to be based upon the cost per unit of reduced risk. But it’s…
…1990); US Department of Transportation, National Transportation Statistics (Washington, DC: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1999). Online at https://www.bts.gov/btsprod/nts/. Figure 4. The maximum size of power plants, US. Each line represents…
We post Jesse’s “Nuclear and Renewable Heresies“, delivered as a plenary address to the Canadian Nuclear Association 10 March 2005 in Ottawa….
…time. However, achieving further advances, especially cost effectively, in reducing mortality and morbidity and improving other measures of health and environmental quality will require new strategies that can address the…
…energy sector anyway, with regard to preferred primary fuels as well as efficiency. What appear as costs in our current cost-benefit calculus for mitigating, and adapting to, the greenhouse effect…