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…

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…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

…Census of Marine Life and ways to meet them.  Three grand questions encompass the program as a whole.  What did live in the oceans?  What does live in the oceans? …

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

…time series data on lifetime work hours are unavailable, data on annual average hours worked[5] are available for numerous countries. Trends in annual hours worked should be revealing in view of the observed stability of…

Malthus And Graduate Students: Checks On Burgeoning Ranks Of Ph.D.’s

JH Ausubel. The Scientist 10 (3): 11 1996

…#3, pg.11 , February 5, 1996)(Copyright © The Scientist, Inc.)The Scientist, 3600 Market Street, Suite 450, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A.[This article appeared on The Scientist web page, used with permission – psm]….

Energy and Environment: The Light Path

JH Ausubel. Energy Systems and Policy 15: 181–188 1991

…in energy policy. Bridge 17(3):15-21. MacDonald, G. J. F. 1990. The Future of methane as an energy resource. Annual Review of Energy 15:53-83. Marchetti, C. 1975. Transport and storage of energy: RR-75-038. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute…

Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 14: 187–198 1992

…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…

Does Energy Policy Matter?

…the image of the most recent IPCC report. Now let me return to more direct effects of politics, or of strategies and fate. Consider the evolution of the USSR energy…

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Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…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…