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Annotated Bibliography on Ecological Aspects of Regional Development
(1974-06)This bibliography on ecological aspects of regional development was prepared as a background document for the SCOPE (International Council of Scientific Unions, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) Workshop ... -
Project Status Report: Ecology and Environment Project
(1974-06-21)We present here the extended outline and copies of the illustrations used in the Status Report of the IIASA Ecology and Environment Project, presented at Schloss Laxenburg on 21 June 1974. Section 1., "General Review", is ... -
Towards a Structural View of Resilience
(IIASA, 1975-08)The result of resilience is persistence: the maintenance of certain characteristic behavioral properties in the face of stress, strain and surprise. But the origins of this resilient behavior lie in the structure of the ... -
Intertemporal Indicator Evaluation: A Preliminary Note on Problems for Evaluating Time Stream Data for Environmental Policy Analysis
(IIASA, 1976-01)Assumptions regarding the aggregation of time stream data (e.g. "discounting") are crucial in the evaluation of regional development proposals and the assessment of environmental impacts. Nonetheless, present practice ... -
Spatial Structure Relationship in a Forest Insect System: Simulation Models and Analysis
(IIASA, 1979)This paper analyses relationships among dispersal, spatial heterogeneity, and local ecological processes in the spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) - boreal forest system of eastern North America. A range of ... -
Lessons for Ecological Policy Design: A Case Study of Ecosystem Management
(Elsevier BV, 1979-06)This paper explores the prospects for combining elements of the ecological and policy sciences to form a substantive and effective science of ecological policy design. This exploration is made through a case study whose ... -
Food, Health, and Population: Policy Analysis and Development Priorities in Low-Income Countries
(IIASA, 1979-06)This paper presents a policy analysis of rural development strategies in low-income countries. Governments, development agencies, and scholars are now giving increased attention to structuring and supplementing growth ... -
Witches, Floods, and Wonder Drugs: Historical Perspectives on Risk Management
(Springer, 1980)Risk is a people problem, and people have been contending with it for a very long time indeed. I extract some lessons from this historical record and explore their implications for current and future practice of risk ... -
The Carbon-Dioxide Review
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On the Practical Implications of the Carbon Dioxide Question
(IIASA, 1985-08)There is no doubt that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other "greenhouse" gases have been increasing and will continue to do so for the next several decades at least. Climate models predict that this will lead to a ... -
Learning From The Cloud
(1986) -
Editorial: A Sadness on the Rhine
(Informa UK Limited, 1986-12) -
Scale Relationships in the Interactions of Climate, Ecosystems, and Societies
(Springer Netherlands, 1987) -
Global Change Begins At Home
(Informa UK Limited, 1989) -
Scenarios of Socioeconomic Development for Studies of Global Environmental Change: A Critical Review
(IIASA, 1989-06)This study (1) critically reviews existing studies of global trends in population, agriculture, and energy with a view toward showing which studies are most useful for which sorts of studies of global environmental change ... -
The Environmental President?
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Trusting the Experts
(1990)