JH Ausubel.
Production Efficiencies: The Engineers' Report, American Association of Engineering Societies, Washington, D.C.
14–18
1999
Republished in: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic SYSTEMS 14(10):3-6, October 1999. The paper is based on a talk Jesse gave at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development meetings in New York in April 1999.
…During the past half-century, ratios of crops to land for the world’s major grains-corn, rice, soybean, and wheat-have climbed fast on all six of the farm continents. Per hectare, world…
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
…to numbers, and on compensation level. Prospective students might be simulated in terms of application and matriculation rates by market segment; “market research” data might be used to convey attitudes and…
JH Ausubel, Arnulf Grübler.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
50:
113–131
1995
…as follows. First, we analyze the quantitative trends in work time in the United Kingdom and other industrialized nations, then we compare the changing shares of life hours allocated to…
…is dilution.’” –Robert A. Frosch “…the affinity between the two orders [the rules of nature and the rules of policy] becomes a challenge to contemporary politics…. nowadays it is a…
C Marchetti, PS Meyer, JH Ausubel.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
53:
1–30
1996
…by academics, other national or international nongovernmental agencies, or the World Bank. Another source of data is the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project run by the Institute for Resource…
JH Ausubel.
Nature
350:
649–652
1991
…relates to markets. The needs are for facilitation of information flows and improvements in rules for markets, in particular, markets for water. In many nations, water is allocated largely through…
IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel.
Journal of Industrial Ecology
1 (3):
125–145
1997
…and guided by styles, prices, and rules; millers encompass saw and paper mills responding to customers, stockholders, and regulations; and foresters encompass landowners as well as people in foresters’ green…
JH Ausubel.
Fisheries
26 (7):
33–36
2001
…out, and the fact that growing numbers of us are trying. About four years ago, several leading oceanographers shared their concerns with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that humanity’s understanding…
JH Ausubel.
Earth Matters
46–47
2000
a magazine published by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Winter 1999/2000. This issue contains many of the speeches that were presented at the "State of The Planet" conference held at Columbia in the Fall of 1999.
…stopped plowing up more nature per capita. Meanwhile, growth in calories in the world’s food supply has continued to outpace population, especially in poor countries. Per hectare, farmers lifted world…
…filtering their own. Newspapers and television news programs have discovered that toxic releases in the Valley are nearly as sensational as kidnaping and murders. When the Fairchild story hit the…