Resources are Elastic
…stopped plowing up more nature per capita. Meanwhile, growth in calories in the world’s food supply has continued to outpace population, especially in poor countries. Per hectare, farmers lifted world…
…stopped plowing up more nature per capita. Meanwhile, growth in calories in the world’s food supply has continued to outpace population, especially in poor countries. Per hectare, farmers lifted world…
…International Convention on Biodiversity, governments and people lack the information to judge whether they comply with it, in national waters or high seas. Still other scientists, such as Michael Sissenwine,…
…oceans. Moreover, biodiversity now finds itself with an International Convention, but uncharted national obligations and resources. The Census could help draw the charts and build the understanding to allow international…
…Invention to Application, National Academy, Washington DC., USA, pp. 45-100. Starr, C. and Rudman, R., 1973, Parameters of technological growth, Science 182:358-364. Taylor, J.W.R., ed., 1984, Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1984-1985, Jane’s,…
…On industry-owned forests, yields exceed by half those on national forests and private nonindustrial land (Haynes 1990 Powell et al. 1993). Nationally, although the forest industry owns only about one-seventh…
…than bread or milk, or most anything that costs more than one ruble. I tried to buy a record. I was not succeeding. Finally somebody in the line spoke in…
…filtering their own. Newspapers and television news programs have discovered that toxic releases in the Valley are nearly as sensational as kidnaping and murders. When the Fairchild story hit the…
…can fall,” said Gorbachev, who sent his remarks to be read at the conference after he was unable to attend. The thread of optimism at the State of the Planet…
…are assigned a “basic cause” through the use of the “Rules for the Selection of Basic Cause” stated in the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. Geneva: World…
…Continental Supergrid is an archival site of our late colleague, Paul Grant. National Academy Press The publishers for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute…