Living with limits: growth,resources, and climate change     

Martin Wolf 《Climate Policy》2013,13(6):772-783

Is it possible for all of humanity to enjoy the standards of living of today's high-income countries? What would happen if these limits were reached, perhaps because of climate change or a shortage of natural resources essential to production? How would society manage – or fail to manage – such limits? Notwithstanding the current financial and economic crises, these are perhaps the biggest questions confronting our species (and of a host of other species, who are the victims of our decisions). The article begins by considering the biggest economic event of our lifetimes – the ‘great convergence’ and its implications for the demand for resources. The discussion then turns to a specific limit on our development, climate change, which is different from most other limits, because it involves a global public good: the atmosphere. What such limits might mean for our civilization is discussed. One can persuade people to tackle climate change only if those concerned with the dangers persuade ordinary people that action will not come at the expense of their prosperity.  相似文献   

A Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Activity: Pushing Forward the Unification Scheme     

Andrea Merloni  Sebastian Heinz  Tiziana Di Matteo 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,300(1-3):45-53

We examine the disc-jet connection in stellar mass and supermassive black holes by investigating the properties of their compact emission in the hard X-ray and radio bands. We compile a sample of ∼100 active galactic nuclei with measured mass, 5 GHz core emission, and 2–10 keV luminosity, together with eight galactic black holes with a total of ∼50 simultaneous observations in the radio and X-ray bands. Using this sample, we study the correlations between the radio (L_R) and the X-ray (L_X) luminosity and the black hole mass (M). We find that the radio luminosity is correlated with both M and L_X, at a highly significant level. We show how this result can be used to extend the standard unification by orientation scheme to encompass unification by mass and accretion rate.  相似文献   

Light-Time Effect in the Eclipsing Binaries GO Cyg, GW Cep, AR Aur and V505 Sgr     

D. Chochol  T. Pribulla  M. Vaňko  P. Mayer  M. Wolf  P. G. Niarchos  K. D. Gazeas  V. N. Manimanis  L. Brát  M. Zejda 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2006,304(1-4):93-96

Orbital period changes of the eclipsing binaries GO Cyg and GW Cep are explained by the light-time effect for the first time. New minima of the eclipsing binary AR Aur improve the predicted light-time orbit. The light-time orbit with the quadratic ephemeris of the binary matches the new observations of V505 Sgr better than the linear one. As the light-time effect fits in corresponding O − C diagrams of all four systems have been reaching extreme values, the observations of minima times in forthcoming years are highly desirable.  相似文献   

What is Germany — what is Central Europe (Mitteleuropa)?     

Wolf Tietze Dr. 《GeoJournal》1989,19(2):173-176

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Unified 3D critical state bounding-surface plasticity model for soils incorporating continuous plastic loading under cyclic paths. Part I: Constitutive relations     

Roger S. Crouch  John P. Wolf 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》1994,18(11):735-758

The unified three-dimensional (3D) critical state bounding-surface plasticity model gUTS enables clays, silts and sands to be treated within a single framework. Furthermore, loose and dense states of a particular soil subjected to a wide range of confinements are viewed as a single material defined by the same set of constants. The model is able to handle both monotonic and complex cyclic paths including those involving a rotation of the principal stress directions. The model incorporates the following features: combined use of radial and deviatoric mapping rules and the use of an apparent normal consolidation line for sands; use of a non-associated flow rule where the ratio of the rates of volumetric plastic strain to deviatoric plastic strain is a function only of the ratio of deviatoric to mean effective stresses and the Lode angle; adoption of a bi-linear critical state line projected onto the plane of the void ratio versus logarithm of mean effective stress; inclusion of a sub-elliptic, or super-elliptic, segment in the plastic dilatancy surface for stress ratios less than critical; use of elliptic segments in the deviatoric planes; movement of the projection centre in the deviatoric mapping region and incorporation of a plastic stiffening effect for cyclic paths which repeatedly load in the same deviatoric direction.  相似文献   

New tasks and future scope of political geography     

Wolf Tietze 《GeoJournal》1994,34(2):231-232

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Book reviews     

Foerstner  U.  Zaporozec  Alexander  Söhnge  P. G.  Tietze  Wolf  Hodenberg  Renate v.  Wallner  A.  Wellmer  Hella  Bardach  John E.  Horstmann  Kurt  Wennberg  Gösta 《GeoJournal》1983,7(5):473-476

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Comments on “Market Trade in Decentralized Development”     

Wolf Roder 《The Professional geographer》1989,41(3):359-360

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Book reviews     

George Kish  Wolf Tietze  C. Paddick  Dietrich Barsch  Keith Clayton  Michael F. Thomas  Thomas Peucker  Alexander Zaporozec  Georg Matthess  German Müller  K. Ernstson  Olusegun Areola  Gerald M. Friedman  Maurice K. -Seguin  C. Koeman  Risto Aario 《GeoJournal》1979,3(4):410-416

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Woodleigh impact structure,Australia: Shock petrography and geochemical studies     

Wolf Uwe REIMOLD  Christian KOEBERL  Robert M. HOUGH  Iain MCDONALD  Alex BEVAN  Kassa AMARE  Bevan M. FRENCH 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2003,38(7):1109-1130

Abstract— The large, complex Woodleigh structure in the Carnarvon basin of Western Australia has recently been added to the terrestrial impact crater record. Many aspects of this structure are, however, still uncertain. This work provides a detailed petrographic assessment of a suite of representative drill core samples from the borehole Woodleigh 1 that penetrated uplifted basement rocks of the central part of this structure. Fundamental rock and mineral deformation data and high‐precision chemical data, including results of PGE and oxygen isotopic analysis, are presented. The sampled interval displays likely impact‐produced macrodeformation in the form of fracturing and breccia veining at the microscopic scale. Contrary to earlier reports that these breccias represent pseudotachylite (friction melt) or even shock/shear‐produced pseudotachylitic melt breccia cannot be confirmed due to pervasive post‐impact alteration. Abundant planar deformation features (PDFs) in quartz, in addition to diaplectic glass and partial isotropization, are the main shock deformation effects observed, confirming that Woodleigh is of impact origin. Over the investigated depth interval, the statistics of quartz grains with a variable number of sets of PDFs does not change significantly, and the patterns of crystallographic orientations of PDFs in randomly selected quartz grains does not indicate a change in absolute shock pressure with depth either. The value of oxygen isotopes for the recognition of meteoritic contamination, as proposed by earlier Woodleigh workers, is critically assessed. Neither INA nor PGE analyses of our samples support the presence of a meteoritic component within this basement section, as had been claimed in earlier work.  相似文献