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
…fisheries, which contributed to their decline. Canada and Spain came to the brink of serious conflict over the cod on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland in the early 1990s. Widespread…
…share control of consumer products that are sources of ionizing radiation. A further cadre of agencies govern occupational exposures. This highly organized yet unwieldy situation does not result from ill…
We post Jesse’s “Nuclear and Renewable Heresies“, delivered as a plenary address to the Canadian Nuclear Association 10 March 2005 in Ottawa….
Seafood is often mislabeled–in the past year, barcode surveys in Canada (Hanner et al 2011), Ireland (Miller et al 2011), Spain (ICIJ 2011), United Kingdom, and United States (Boston Globe,…
JH Ausubel.
Am Sci
84 (2):
166–178
1996
Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.
…has conquered the earth can also spare it. To answer this question, I shall examine secular trends in what technology does with four paramount resources: energy, materials, land and water….
JH Ausubel.
Energy Policy
23 (4/5):
411–416
1995
Also pp. 501-512 in 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.
…energy sector anyway, with regard to preferred primary fuels as well as efficiency. What appear as costs in our current cost-benefit calculus for mitigating, and adapting to, the greenhouse effect…
JH Ausubel.
Pollution Prevention Review
8 (1):
39–52
1998
This article has been republished in the journal Environmental Regulation and Permitting 9(2):251-62, 1999.
…for industry organization because they especially reward producers who are the most efficient and lowest cost – in short, the most competitive. They often witness a big restructuring of the…
JH Ausubel, Arnulf Grübler.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
50:
113–131
1995
…holidays”2 -1,744 -8,534 -10,278 -720 -3,280 -4,000 Shorter/Longer Work career3 +11,674 -13,779 -2,105 -2,675 +19,268 +16,593 TOTAL -26,830 -34,810 -61,640 -22,240 -710 -22,950 1Changes in hours worked per week (lower…
JH Ausubel.
Energy Systems and Policy
15:
181–188
1991
…development, and government “cost-sharing” for clean coal plants. These subsidies should stop. Clean coal is an oxymoron, and the technologies that seek it are costly to install and complicated to…
…comprised of two or more distinct species. These revisions include some very familiar birds, e.g., Canada Goose, which was recently recognized as comprising two species, Cackling Goose (B. hutchinsii) and…