…income levels in proximity to industrial facilities (e.g., Napton and Day 1992). Median black household income is also lower in TRI communities than in non-TRI communities, whether they are based…
…likely. Unmodified by a divisor, compounding by 2.3% doubles a resource demand or an environmental impact in about 30 years, quadruples it in 60, and multiplies it eightfold in about…
…shall see, matters immensely for future human well being, so the coal industry also has a valuable skill to sell. If it is dusk for coal, it is mid-afternoon for…
…land used for meat is the product of an identity: population times wealth ($/person) times diet (kg meat/$) times feed conversion efficiency (kg feed/kg meat) times 1/crop yield (hectares per…
…separate calculation of its CHF for ecological receptors. 4. Ecology–Persistence. It isn’t only important to know the immediate impact of a contaminant. How long will it remain in the environment? Is…
…logistic pulse is below 1% of saturation (k2), the first component data set (ti, y1i>) is essentially identical to the raw data, (ti, yi), and it is plotted with solid…
…early adopters. In fact, China would need to increase its rail network twenty times to achieve a spatial density comparable to that obtained by the industrialized countries in the 1920s…
…‘My Godfather isn’t mad at me anymore.’ I called you five times after I lost the Harvard Chair and Andrei always told me you were out or busy, so I knew you…
…Yields in agriculture synthesize a cluster of innovations, including tractors, seeds, chemicals, and irrigation, joined through timely information flows and better organized markets. Figure 5. Yields of wheat and corn…
…By some estimates, four-fifths of Brazil’s local wood consumption is illegally felled. Yet at the same time, Brazil has become a powerhouse in forest planting. Established on already degraded and…