Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…Rights, and the Bureau of Reclamation (Resources for the Future, Washington, 1989). 19. Waggoner, P. E. (ed.) Climatic Change and US Water Resources (Wiley, New York, 1989). 20. Mensch, G. Stalemate in Technology (Ballinger, Cambridge,…

Bi-Logistic Growth

PS Meyer. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 47: 89–102 1994

…the growth process: N(tm) = k/2. The location parameter b can be replaced by tm by defining b = -tma. It is also convenient to define a parameter Dt as the length of the time interval required for the growth process to…

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….

Can Technology Spare the Earth?

JH Ausubel. Am Sci 84 (2): 166–178 1996 Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.

…Forecasting and Social Change 52:1-30. Matthews, A. 1992. Where the Buffalo Roam. New York: Grove Weidenfeld. Meyer, P. 1994. Bi-logistic growth.Technological Forecasting and Social Change 47:89-102. Mitchell, B. R. 1980. European Historical Statistics 1750-1975, 2nd ed. New

Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…electricity consumption will l ead to ultra-high voltage lines (for example, + 2 megavolts) with higher capacity (for example, 5 or 10 gigawatts) and continental range. The great advantage of continental and intercontinental connections is that…

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…

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

…cited AUSUBEL, J.H. 1996. Can technology spare the earth? American Scientist 84:166-178. AUSUBEL, J.H. 2001. The great reversal: Nature’s chance to restore land and sea. Technology in Society 22:289-301. MARCHETTI, C. 1979. On energy…

Mitigation and Adaptation for Climate Change: Answers and Questions

JH Ausubel. The Bridge 23 (3): 15–30 1993 Also pp. 557-584 in Costs, Impacts, and Benefits of CO2 Mitigation, Y. Kaya, N. Nakicenovic, W.D. Nordhaus, and F.L. Toth, eds., International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1993.

…1991a, Energy and environment: the light path, Energy Systems and Policy 15:181-188. Ausubel, J.H., 1991b, Does climate still matter?, Nature 350:649-652. Birdsall, N., 1992, Another look at Population and Global Warming, Country Economics Department, World…