Progress in biodiversity informatics

We celebrate recent achievements in biodiversity informatics. Â Enjoy exploring the new GBIF interface for the global mapping of occurrence records. Try zooming and using the time slider: Â https://www.gbif.org/occurrence…

Special Report

…makers and retailers. And it already serves as a nice marketing tool. Weatherproof Garment Co., a unit of David Peyser Sportswear Inc., of Bay Shore, N.Y., has already found hot…

Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

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

From Technology in Society, Vol. 14, pp. 187-198, 1992. Copyright ©1992 Pergamon Press Ltd. Printed in the USA. All rights reserved. An abbreviated version of this essay appeared in The Sciences, Vol….

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…Review 6(2):143-162, 1998. [xii] P. E. Waggoner, J. H. Ausubel, I. K. Wernick, Lightening the Tread of Population on the Land: American Examples, Population and Development Review 22(3):531-545, 1996. [xiii] www.swissmetro.com [xiv] J. H. Ausubel, The Census of…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…August 1990, p. C1. 9. Warrick, R. A. Climatic Constraints and Human Activities (eds Ausubel, J. & Biswas, A. K.) 93-123 (Pergamon, Oxford, 1980). 10. Reynolds, T. S. Sci. Am. 251(1) 122-130 (1984). 11….

Verification of International Environmental Agreements

JH Ausubel, DG Victor. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 17: 1–43 1992

…economics of enforcing air pollution controls. J. Environ. Econ. Manage. 1: 219-36 82. Storey, D. J., McCabe, P. J. 1980. The criminal waste discharger. Scottish J. Polit. Econ. 27:30-40 83. Harford, J. D. 1978….

Does Energy Policy Matter?

comment. Most obviously, the Russian Revolution and World War II literally drove Russians back into the woods to collect their fuel. Yet, these extreme shocks were later absolutely absorbed. By…

Full PDR issue online

…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 be published on Wiley’s Population and Development Review site shortly….

The Virtual Ecology of Industry

JH Ausubel. Journal of Industrial Ecology 1 (1): 10–11 1997

…help. 26 August 1996 End notes See pp. 129-135 in Thomas H. Lee, Advanced Fossil Fuel Systems and Beyond, pp. 114-136 in Jesse H. Ausubel and Hedy E. Sladovich, eds., Technology and…

International Conflicts over Environment: Scientist’s Roles and Opportunities

JH Ausubel. Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Role of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord, "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences" 866: 253–258 1998

…Control in the European Air Pollution Regime,” in The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments: Theory and Practice, David K. Victor, Kal Raustiala, and Eugene B. Skolnikoff, eds., pp. 283–303…