PLOS One / by Aapo Rautiainen, Iddo Wernick, Paul E. Waggoner, Jesse H. Ausubel and Pekka E. Kauppi http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0019577 [Abstract] Like cities, forests grow by spreading out or by growing denser. Both inventories taken steadily by a single nation and other inventories gathered recently from many nations by the United Nations confirm the asynchronous effects … Continue reading »
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The Status of Tropical Forest Management 2011
International Tropical Timber Organization http://www.itto.int/technical_report/ [Yale Environment 360] A new report finds that the area of sustainably managed forest in the world’s tropical regions increased from 36 million hectares (89 million acres) to 53 million hectares from 2005 to 2010, but that 90 percent of the planet’s tropical forests remain either poorly managed or not … Continue reading »
OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0
US Census Bureau http://lehdmap.did.census.gov/em.html The Census Bureau released OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0 today, the beginning of the 2011 hurricane season. Version 2.0 adds floods and wildfires to hurricanes which was released last year. To provide users with the latest information available, OnTheMap for Emergency Management automatically incorporates real time data updates from the National … Continue reading »
Corporate Social Responsibility After Disaster
U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper via Social Science Research Network / by Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1819392 [Abstract] The corporate social responsibility debate asks whether the managers of large, publicly traded corporations may sacrifice profits to pursue other socially valuable goals. Most scholars contend that the dominant role of corporations in society … Continue reading »
How Social Influence Can Undermine the Wisdom of Crowd Effect
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v108 n22 p9020-9025 (online ahead of print, May 16, 2011) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1008636108/ by Jan Lorenz, Heiko Rauhut, Frank Schweitzer, and Dirk Helbing http://www.pnas.org/content/108/22/9020 [Green Car Congress) In an open access paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from ETH Zürich report that … Continue reading »
World Energy Outlook 2011: Special Report – Are We Entering a Golden Age of Gas?
International Energy Outlook (IEA has made this available on the open web) http://www.iea.org/weo/docs/weo2011/WEO2011_GoldenAgeofGasReport.pdf [Dot Earth by Andrew Revkin] The news release heading on the new report summarizes the forces in play: Ample supplies, robust emerging markets and uncertainty about nuclear power all point to a prominent role for gas in global energy mix; prospect that … Continue reading »
