The liberation of the environment

Daedalus

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1-17

  Ausubel, Jesse H ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (31)

1. See, for example, Jared M. Diamond, "Ecological Collapses of Ancient Civilizations: The Golden Age that Never Was," Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences XLVII (5) (1994): 37-59;
2. "The Conquest of Nature, 1492-1992," Report on the Americas 25 (2) (1991),
3. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), New York, September 1991;
4. Alexander Starbuck, History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to 1876, vol. 1 (New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1964);
5. B. L. Turner II, William C. Clark, Robert W. Kates, John F. Richards, Jessica T. Mathews, and William B. Meyer, The Earth as Transformed by Human Action (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
6. Nebojša Nakićenović, "Freeing Energy from Carbon," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
7. Jesse H. Ausubel, "Energy and Environment: The Light Path," Energy Systems and Policy 15 (3) (1991): 181-188.
8. R. V. Reynolds and Albert H. Pierson, "Fuel Wood Used in the United States: 1630-1930," Circular 641 (Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture, February 1942).
9. Arnulf Grübler, "Time for a Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
10. Robert U. Ayres, Energy Inefficiency in the US Economy: A New Case for Conservation, RR-89-12 (Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1989).
11. Jesse H. Ausubel and Cesare Marchetti, "Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
12. Paul E. Waggoner, "How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature?" Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
13. For discussion of the re-creation of the "Buffalo Commons" in the US Great Plains, proposed by geographers Deborah and Frank Popper, see Anne Matthews, Where the Buffalo Roam (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992).
14. For a net estimate of changes in land use from growth of cities as well as changes in farming and forestry in the United States over the next century, see Paul E. Waggoner, Jesse H. Ausubel, and Iddo K. Wernick, "Lightening the Tread of Population on the Land: American Examples," Population and Development Review (forthcoming).
15. Chauncey Starr, "Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
16. US Geological Survey, "Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 1990," Circular 1081 (Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1993).
17. US Geological Survey, "National Water Summary 1987 - Hydrologic Events and Water Supply and Use," Water Supply Paper 2350 (Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1987), 81-92.
18. Eugene Z. Stakhiv, "Managing Water Resources for Climate Change Adaptation," in J. B. Smith, N. Bhatti, G. Menzhulin, R. Benioff, M. I. Budyko, M. Campos, B. Jallow, and F. Rijsberman, eds., Adapting to Climate Change: Assessment and Issues (New York: Springer-Verlag, Inc., 1996), 243-264.
19. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, The State of the Environment (Paris: OECD, 1991).
20. Iddo K. Wernick, Robert Herman, Shekhar Govind, and Jesse H. Ausubel, "Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
21. Robert A. Frosch, "Toward the End of Waste: Reflections on a New Ecology of Industry," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
22. See Iddo K. Wernick and Jesse H. Ausubel, "National Materials Metrics for Industrial Ecology," Resources Policy 21 (3) (1995): 189-198.
23. Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich, "Humans in Nature: Toward a Physiocentric Philosophy," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
24. See also Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich, Revolution for Nature: From the Environment to the Co-Natural World (Cambridge, U.K. and Denton, Tex.: White Horse and University of North Texas Press, 1993).
25. Jesse H. Ausubel, Perrin Meyer, and Iddo K. Wernick, "Death and the Human Environment: America in the 20th Century," working paper, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University, New York, 1995;
26. John B. McKinlay and Sonja M. McKinlay, "The Questionable Contribution of Medical Measures to the Decline of Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century," Milbank Quarterly on Health and Society (Summer 1977): 405-428.
27. Robert W. Kates, "Population, Technology, and the Human Environment: A Thread Through Time," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
28. Cesare Marchetti, Perrin Meyer, and Jesse H. Ausubel, "Human Population Dynamics Revisited with a Logistic Model: How Much Can Be Modeled and Predicted?" Technological Forecasting and Social Change 52 (1996): 1-30.
29. Peggy L. Jenkins, Thomas J. Phillips, Elliot J. Mulberg, and Steve P. Hui, "Activity Patterns of Californians: Use of and Proximity to Indoor Pollutant Sources," Atmospheric Environment 26A (12) (1992): 2141-2148.
30. Lee Schipper, "Life-Styles and the Environment: The Case of Energy," Dœdalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
31. For more information on required rates and amounts of change, see Jesse H. Ausubel, "Can Technology Spare the Earth?" American Scientist 84 (2) (1996): 166-178.