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Malcolm Bennett
Poppy, who also was a co-organiser of the meeting, leads a new research project called ASSETS (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems through Trade-off Scenarios). This project investigates two model regions at the forest–agriculture interface, one in Colombia and one in Malawi. The case studies cover around two million people, but the researchers believe that the results they obtain wi...
متن کاملMalcolm Burrows
At the international level, there is an increasing awareness that many of the environmental problems that our civilisation has brought upon itself are either focused on the shorelines or most obvious in their vicinity. Fertiliser run-off from agricultural lands produces eutrophication of coastal waters, marine litter washes up on Norway’s otherwise flawless beaches, and disoriented whales as we...
متن کاملMellor on Chance and Causation
Mellor's subject is singular causation between facts, expressed 'E because C . His central requirement for causation is that the chance that E if C be greater than the chance that E if ~C: chc (E)>ch~c (E). The book is as much about chance as it is about causation. I show that his way of distinguishing chc (E) from the traditional notion of conditional chance leaves him with a problem about the...
متن کاملMellor on Negative Properties
In a recent paper, D.H. Mellor argues that there can be no negative, disjunctive or conjunctive properties. This argument has been criticized by Alex Oliver on the grounds that it rests on a contentious identity criterion for facts, but it seems to me that a simpler criticism is available. In what follows I shall concentrate on Mellor’s argument only in so far as it concerns negative properties...
متن کاملProfile of Malcolm
S tretching across the periodic table, in the gulf between the hyper-reactive alkali metals and stoic noble gasses, are the often overlooked transition elements. For Malcolm H. Chisholm, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), however, that vast expanse holds some of the most fascinating chemistry. In the tongue-twisting element of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Polar Record
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0032-2474,1475-3057
DOI: 10.1017/s0032247400020593