Godfather – The Scientist

…godfather?” asked Don Gvishiani. Chapter 4 The first one to see Baxter enter the Schloss was Vivien Schimmel. She forgot her secretarial dignity for a moment and squealed “Frankie.” Then, she ran into his arms. He…

Community Risk Profiles: Summary

…and Earl, L.M. 1992. The Case for Participatory Evaluation. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 14:397-418. Daedalus. 1994. Special Issue on Health and Wealth. Daedalus 123:4. Daedalus. 1990. Special Issue on Risk. Daedalus 119:4. Dockery, W.D.,…

CASE STUDY: Evaluating Environmental Equity in Allegheny County

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Bi-Logistic Growth

PS Meyer. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 47: 89–102 1994

…the growth process: N(tm) = k/2. The location parameter b can be replaced by tm by defining b = -tma. It is also convenient to define a parameter Dt as the length of the time interval required for the growth process to…

The Great Reversal: Nature’s Chance to Restore Land and Sea

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 22: 289–302 2000

…(118th edition.) Washington, DC. [1] Ausubel JH. For a discussion covering energy, materials, and other aspects along with land use see The Liberation of the Environment. Daedalus 1996;125(3):1-17. [2] Waggoner PE, Ausubel JH, Wernick IK. Lightening…

Energy and Environment: The Light Path

JH Ausubel. Energy Systems and Policy 15: 181–188 1991

…in energy policy. Bridge 17(3):15-21. MacDonald, G. J. F. 1990. The Future of methane as an energy resource. Annual Review of Energy 15:53-83. Marchetti, C. 1975. Transport and storage of energy: RR-75-038. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

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

… Closely related are institutional obligations for maintaining web sites and servers.  Who hosts?  Who pays?  OBIS cannot rely only on the goodwill of individual scientists maintaining sound sites as hobbies…

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

…States, Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, 1975). U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1998, 118th edition(Washington, D.C., 1997). The rate of growth of world population peaked…

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

…Press, 1992). Kenneth E. Boulding, Conflict and Defense: A General Theory (New York: Harper, 1962). Leo Szilard and Barton J. Bernstein, The Voice of the Dolphin and Other Stories (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992)….

COML Reuters Story

The Census of Marine Life Home Page CoML.org Scientists Gear Up for Effort to Record Ocean Life By REUTERS, February 22, 2001 SYDNEY – Marine scientists from across Australia are…