…Problems and opportunities frequently cross national borders. Informal and formal international arrangements-loosely termed “regimes,” defined here as systems of rule or government that have widespread influence–are for the collective management…
…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…
In 2014, Di Renzo published in Italian Jesse Ausubel’s autobiography La liberazione dell’ambiente (autobiography) 112 pp. We now post an English translation as The Liberation of the Environment. The autobiography…
…English and explained that I had to have a Ukrainian coupon along with the rubles. The coupon system instituted in October 1990 to keep goods within the Ukrainian Republic appears…
The Census of Marine Life, which Jesse has helped develop, is growing fast. The Associated Press has just issued a lively account of some of the nascent field projects….
…covered by all the big media outlets — BBC, CNN International, AP, ABC News–, made it into print in ten nations, and was reported in English, Japanese, French, and Spanish….
…views my city through a soda straw. They only look at one thing at a time, for instance, underground storage tanks, or stormwater runoff, drinking water, trucker safety. . ….
…for the Census of Marine Life has appeared in the Chilean journal Gayana. We also offer Jesse’s English translation. Gayana‘s transcript [Spanish, with English translation]: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Jesse_H._Ausubel.PDF Jesse’s English translation: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/comlconcepcionjha.pdf…
The CIA for decades overstated the size of the Soviet economy and thus its threat to the USA. Worldwatchers have yearly forecast a food crisis from the exhaustion of soil…
…keyed to the information revolution and later to the electrification of travel. Exhibit 4. Growth Pulses in World Per Capita Energy Consumption (tons coal equivalent) Total world consumption is dissected…