Richard Malcolm Lister, 1928 to 1998

Richard G . Lister Herbert J . Weingartner

Testimonial to Sir Joseph Lister

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...

Introductory note to 1928

Zermelo’s 1928 paper on measuring participants’ playing strengths in chess tournaments is a remarkable work in the history of paired comparison modeling. Apart from several contemporary papers by Thurstone (1927a, 1927b, 1927c), Zermelo’s paper was an isolated excursion into paired comparison methods that was far ahead of its time. After this paper, the field remained mostly dormant for about 2...

Malcolm 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...