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…constituency, with media actions being illustrated with newspaper clippings or television stories. Public opinion also might be simulated as a single constituency; public opinion might drive regulatory decisions, and influence state funding decisions in game…
…Pacific in 1 hour. I am speaking now of 100 years, but that is our time frame. The maglevs would help spread the infrastructure cost over multiple uses. As with ZEPPS, magic…
…Washington DC, https://www.udidata.com/ [Endnotes] 1 J.H. Ausubel, Does Climate Still Matter? Nature 350:649-652, 1991. [2] D.G. Victor and J. H. Ausubel, Restoring the Forests, Foreign Affairs 79(6):127-144, 2000. [3] See J.H. Ausubel, Productivity, Electricity, Science: Powering…
…area, 1630-1997. Inset: U.S. forest volume, hardwoods and softwoods, 1952-1997. Sources of data: D.S. Powell, J.L. Faulkner, D.R. Darr, Z. Zhu, and D.W. MacCleery, Forest Resources of the United States, 1992, USDA Forest Service…
…not exhaust ourselves chasing phantoms, when the race before us is anyway long and hard. First, I offer a few words to describe the two multipliers of resource and environmental factors: Population and GDP per…
…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…
…these international links antedating glasnost and perestroika, as well as the April 1986 accident. In the spring of 1990, reports showed patches of radiation effects persisting around Chernobyl. One might think regular lines…
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…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…