home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky sci.environment:12966 talk.environment:4735
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!hal.com!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!darkstar!steinly
- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Affluence and Land Use (from I = PAT)
- Message-ID: <STEINLY.92Nov23120724@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:07:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov23.182641.25465@vexcel.com>
- Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO
- Lines: 24
- NNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu
- In-reply-to: dean@vexcel.com's message of 23 Nov 92 18:26:41 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov23.182641.25465@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
-
- ...
-
- Whether or not such equalization is required,
- there seems to be a requirement that A, as currently defined,
- must decrease in the developed world. While I am
-
- ...
-
- How _is_ "A" currently defined? I know of no good definition.
- At least on sci.env "A" seems to be defined in terms that
- produce the answer the definer is seeking (which is in fact one of
- the strongest weaknesses of the P=IAT formula - it leaves the
- definition of A (and to lesser extent T) so arbitary as to
- be useless).
- As I perceive it, A is not uniquely defined within any
- culture, much less between cultures, and cannot be well defined
- in terms of either land use or physical throughput?
-
- * Steinn Sigurdsson Lick Observatory *
- * steinly@lick.ucsc.edu "standard disclaimer" *
- * Oh look out my country's patriots are hunting down below *
- * What do they know of England who only England know - B.B. 1991 *
-