Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms

JH Ausubel. World Energy Council Journal July: 8–16 1998

…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…

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]….

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…

Simulating the Academy: Toward Understanding Colleges and Universities as Dynamic Systems

JH Ausubel, R Herman, WF Massy, SV Massy. What Higher Education is Doing Right, W.F. Massy and J.W. Meyerson, eds., Princeton University 107–120 1997 120

…predict behavior. Research sponsors might be simulated on a discipline-by-discipline basis, with each discipline characterized by the level of total funding and the intensity of competition. Alumni and potential donors might be…

The Environment for Future Business

JH Ausubel. Pollution Prevention Review 8 (1): 39–52 1998 This article has been republished in the journal Environmental Regulation and Permitting 9(2):251-62, 1999.

…of the logistic equation into a straight line. Source: Ausubel and Marchetti, Daedalus 125(3), 1996. Lamps have brightened with each decade. At the outset of the 1990s, the Photonics Lab of the 3M…

CASE STUDY: Evaluating Environmental Equity in Allegheny County

…on the Distribution of Air Quality. Land Economics 54:278-297. Berry, B.J., ed. 1977. The Social Burdens of Environmental Pollution: A Comparative Metropolitan Data Source. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger. Bullard, R.D. 1990. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class,…

Does Energy Policy Matter?

…France a 0.8 rate of decline would be required to attain 92 percent of 1990 emissions for the same period. To allocate this decline among the four forces, we estimated…

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…

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)….

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

…States, Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, 1975). U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1998, 118th edition(Washington, D.C., 1997). The rate of growth of world population peaked…