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

…continue, for example, between Peru and Ecuador. My cases are cod fish, Antarctica, atmospheric weapons testing, acid deposition, fresh water, and climate change. CASES Because war is the least ambiguous…

Rise and Fall of SO2 emissions in USA

We post the rise and fall of sulfur dioxide emissions in the USA, which form an Environmental Kuznets Curve where richer is first dirtier and then richer becomes cleaner, as…

Newsprint

Finnish analyst Lauri Hetemaki documents a powerful example of Dematerialization in the U.S. newsprint market. For more information, see, Hetemäki, L. 2005, Chapter 6.2.2 “The U.S. newsprint market”, pp. 77-80,…

# of Species

…paper on biodiversity. The paper attracted more than 1000 news stories around the world in more than 20 languages and 50 countries. Congratulations to Camilo and Company for having made…

Deep Carbon Observatory discoveries

…together. Here are news stories about the discoveries by Reuters, The Independent newspaper, EFE (the Spanish news wire), and New Energy and Fuel. And in Chinese and Russian.    …

Diffusion of Social Phenomena

share grows, it comes at the cost of shares of others. This process is well-described by the so-called “logistic substitution model.”   The logistic model also finds applications in demography, notably…