Rockefeller University

Program for the Human Environment

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Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets

JH Ausubel, Arnulf Grübler. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 50: 113–131 1995

…DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Maddison A. (1991) Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development: A Long-run Comparative View. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Marchand O. (1992) ‘Une comparaison internationale de temps de travail’,…

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On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…On average the world corn farmer has been making the greatest annual percentage improvement. If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s U.S….

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Simulating the Academy: Toward Understanding Colleges and Universities as Dynamic Systems

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

…or react to the performance evaluation. Unscheduled events arising exogenously or because of some condition within the simulation: e.g., a stock-market crash, a dean or professor pleads a case or…

Daedalus, Summer 1996

…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…

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Because the Brain Does Not Change, Technology Must

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.

…forward to globally? If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s USA corn grower, the ten billion people then likely to…

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Scientists, War, Diplomacy, Europe

JH Ausubel. George C. Marshall Institute News 3 (4): 2001

…I find several aspects of the papers striking.  Looking back to World War II, I am impressed by the quick, clever, and numerous roles international scientific cooperation played in the…

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International Conflicts over Environment: Scientist’s Roles and Opportunities

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

…short time, the first NATO rupture of this kind. On one occasion, when a British frigate confronted an Icelandic gunboat on the high seas, the world’s press may have outnumbered…

Google Impact supports DNA Barcoding

…Awards <https://www.google.com/giving/impact-awards.html> program to support organizations using technology and innovative approaches to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. A project at the Smithsonian Institution<https://www.google.com/giving/impact-awards.html#consortium> devoted to reducing illegal wildlife…

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The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

…ABCNews, National Geographic, and the San Francisco Chronicle (https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/16/MN110279.DTL). Chemo synthetic Ecosystems in the Arctic and Northern Atlantic Oceans Cindy Lee Van Dover, College of William and Mary, USA We…