…oceans. The third compelling reason for the CoML is the International Convention on Biodiversity. For this Convention to become useful, good baseline information on ecology is required. The present baseline…
…of heightened public awareness, community activism, expert advice, and local government action. Community-Oriented Information Systems What is the current structure for accessing, integrating, and disseminating information about health and environment…
…Environmental Progress PHE collaborates with Environmental Progress, led by Michael Shellenberger, which seeks to lift humans out of poverty, and save the natural environment by removing obstacles to cheap, reliable…
…as well as OECD, 1994, Electricity Information 1993 (Paris: OECD). Information on the number of operating nuclear power reactors is available from the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1994, Nuclear Power…
…England and the upper Great Lakes states. What is the woodland prospect? Great opportunities seem open for forestry to raise yields and so further decouple demand for timber from demand…
…of the Alaska pipeline. It is easy to understand why oil defeated coal by 1950 as the world’s leading energy source. Yet, despite many improvements from wellhead to gasoline pump, distribution…
…innovations, machines and chemicals, especially the latter, hugely increased yields. After World War II, the automobile industry produced solid, cheap, dependable tractors. A tractor pulls as powerfully as 10 to…
…and Opportunities’, Paper prepared for International Workshop on the Changing Use of Time, Brussels, 17-18 April. Dublin, Ireland: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Gershuny J.I….
…probably frustrated by the capacity of the available lines. Long-distance calls had to be booked in advance. In the days of the telegraph it was one line, one message. In…
…than inventory the vast unknown. It envisaged the development of an on-line ocean biogeographical information system (OBIS). OBIS would enable researchers and resource managers, within a few years, to select…