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

JH Ausubel. World Energy Council Journal July: 8โ€“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…

Bi-Logistic Growth

PS Meyer. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 47: 89โ€“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…

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…

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 Societyย 21:217-231, 1999.ย 

…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…

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]….

Technical Progress and Climatic Change

JH Ausubel. Energy Policy 23 (4/5): 411โ€“416 1995 Also pp. 501-512 inร‚ย Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.

…Marchetti, C., 1979, Energy systems: The broader context, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 15:79-86. Marchetti, C., 1980, Society as a learning system, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 18:267-282. Mensch, G., 1979, Stalemate in Technology, Ballinger,…

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,…