Does Energy Policy Matter?
…begin a Minuet or perhaps a Highland Fling. In mathematical terms, the probability of finding the proper partner was inversely proportional to the distance between them to the power of…
…begin a Minuet or perhaps a Highland Fling. In mathematical terms, the probability of finding the proper partner was inversely proportional to the distance between them to the power of…
…structures that hardly reflect their lives. The plethora of agencies and departments that administer social programs provides no common information source to professionals at the community level. Access to a…
…begun at this time bolstered fire protection, discouraged losses to insects and disease, and protected wildlife (MacCleery 1992). Both conservationist sentiments and owners’ wish to protect an investment until it…
…existing or potential environmental inequities, they must first be identified and measured. While this process goes on, the policies and practices that have permitted or encouraged such problems to develop…
…programs and the total fertility rate of each professor. Physicist David Goodstein of the California Institute of Technology puts that fertility rate at about 15 Ph.D.’s per professorial career in…
…adaptation. Rising incomes have provided countries, regions, and individuals the means for overcoming a sequence of environmental problems. The World Bank (1992) has proposed a provocative set of relationships between…
…1998 data are for 1998-99.) By “synthetic nitrogen fertilizer,” we mean commercial product, with almost all the nitrogen fixed by the Haber-Bosch process — in contrast to manure, guano, oil…
…produced ‘indoors’ protected from the elements. In some cases, alternatives to outdoor production are so advantageous that a crop is displaced. Originally spurred by the need for supplies in wartime,…
…in knowledge and credibility form major barriers to experimentation and reform. For example, seemingly logical proposals to close marginal departments and redeploy their faculty are vigorously fought. Conversely, incentive programs…
…on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) of the non- governmental International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) to provide international equivalents of U.S. National Research Council studies on global warming. As…