…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…
…and Earl, L.M. 1992. The Case for Participatory Evaluation. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 14:397-418. Daedalus. 1994. Special Issue on Health and Wealth. Daedalus 123:4. Daedalus. 1990. Special Issue on Risk. Daedalus 119:4. Dockery, W.D.,…
…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…
…at legally acceptable levels (4). I believe that a community-based environmental risk evaluation in Silicon Valley would show that an informed community has done a reasonable ad hoc job of characterizing and…
…that Viagra could spare threatened species in general and in particular ones exploited in traditional Chinese medicine. Better Viagra than Tiger Bone or Rhino Horn, as Richard Ellis has written….
[NOTE This is a draft of a paper that has recently appeared (slightly modified) in the journal Consequences: The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change 1(3):2-15, 1995] A generation marks the average timespan between…
…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…
…that don’t have to do with resource abundance. The key in this regard is to harness people’s economic self-interest. A place like upstate New York, which is a relatively poor…
…can governments, independent and private sector groups, and researchers better use information technologies to access, integrate, and disseminate information about health and environment and related concerns at the local level? — What policy…
…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? …