Resources in America's Future

Resources in America's Future
Title Resources in America's Future PDF eBook
Author Resources for the Future
Publisher [Baltimore] : Published for Resources for the Future by the Johns Hopkins Press
Pages 1184
Release 1963
Genre Conservation of natural resources
ISBN

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A detailed examination of the adequacy of natural resources in the U.S. to provide the standard of living expected.

Timber Resources for America's Future. -

Timber Resources for America's Future. -
Title Timber Resources for America's Future. - PDF eBook
Author United States. Forest Service
Publisher
Pages 732
Release 1958
Genre Forest management
ISBN

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America's Energy Future

America's Energy Future
Title America's Energy Future PDF eBook
Author National Research Council
Publisher National Academies Press
Pages 737
Release 2009-12-15
Genre Science
ISBN 0309149096

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For multi-user PDF licensing, please contact customer service. Energy touches our lives in countless ways and its costs are felt when we fill up at the gas pump, pay our home heating bills, and keep businesses both large and small running. There are long-term costs as well: to the environment, as natural resources are depleted and pollution contributes to global climate change, and to national security and independence, as many of the world's current energy sources are increasingly concentrated in geopolitically unstable regions. The country's challenge is to develop an energy portfolio that addresses these concerns while still providing sufficient, affordable energy reserves for the nation. The United States has enormous resources to put behind solutions to this energy challenge; the dilemma is to identify which solutions are the right ones. Before deciding which energy technologies to develop, and on what timeline, we need to understand them better. America's Energy Future analyzes the potential of a wide range of technologies for generation, distribution, and conservation of energy. This book considers technologies to increase energy efficiency, coal-fired power generation, nuclear power, renewable energy, oil and natural gas, and alternative transportation fuels. It offers a detailed assessment of the associated impacts and projected costs of implementing each technology and categorizes them into three time frames for implementation.

The Next America

The Next America
Title The Next America PDF eBook
Author Paul Taylor
Publisher PublicAffairs
Pages 290
Release 2016-01-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1610396685

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The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past. America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use. Today's Millennials -- well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twenty-somethings -- are at risk of becoming the first generation in American history to have a lower standard of living than their parents. Meantime, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are retiring every single day, most of them not as well prepared financially as they'd hoped. This graying of our population has helped polarize our politics, put stresses on our social safety net, and presented our elected leaders with a daunting challenge: How to keep faith with the old without bankrupting the young and starving the future. Every aspect of our demography is being fundamentally transformed. By mid-century, the population of the United States will be majority non-white and our median age will edge above 40 -- both unprecedented milestones. But other rapidly-aging economic powers like China, Germany, and Japan will have populations that are much older. With our heavy immigration flows, the US is poised to remain relatively young. If we can get our spending priorities and generational equities in order, we can keep our economy second to none. But doing so means we have to rebalance the social compact that binds young and old. In tomorrow's world, yesterday's math will not add up. Drawing on Pew Research Center's extensive archive of public opinion surveys and demographic data, The Next America is a rich portrait of where we are as a nation and where we're headed -- toward a future marked by the most striking social, racial, and economic shifts the country has seen in a century.

Critical Mineral Resources of the United States

Critical Mineral Resources of the United States
Title Critical Mineral Resources of the United States PDF eBook
Author K. J. Schulz
Publisher Geological Survey
Pages 868
Release 2017
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781411339910

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As the importance and dependence of specific mineral commodities increase, so does concern about their supply. The United States is currently 100 percent reliant on foreign sources for 20 mineral commodities and imports the majority of its supply of more than 50 mineral commodities. Mineral commodities that have important uses and face potential supply disruption are critical to American economic and national security. However, a mineral commodity's importance and the nature of its supply chain can change with time; a mineral commodity that may not have been considered critical 25 years ago may be critical today, and one considered critical today may not be so in the future. The U.S. Geological Survey has produced this volume to describe a select group of mineral commodities currently critical to our economy and security. For each mineral commodity covered, the authors provide a comprehensive look at (1) the commodity's use; (2) the geology and global distribution of the mineral deposit types that account for the present and possible future supply of the commodity; (3) the current status of production, reserves, and resources in the United States and globally; and (4) environmental considerations related to the commodity's production from different types of mineral deposits. The volume describes U.S. critical mineral resources in a global context, for no country can be self-sufficient for all its mineral commodity needs, and the United States will always rely on global mineral commodity supply chains. This volume provides the scientific understanding of critical mineral resources required for informed decisionmaking by those responsible for ensuring that the United States has a secure and sustainable supply of mineral commodities.

Looking Forward

Looking Forward
Title Looking Forward PDF eBook
Author Jamie L. Pietruska
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 295
Release 2017-12-08
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 022647500X

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Introduction: crisis of certainty -- Cotton guesses -- The daily "probabilities"--Weather prophecies -- Economies of the future -- Promises of love and money -- Epilogue: specters of uncertainty

General report. -v. 2. Ten rivers in America's future. -v. 3. Water resources law

General report. -v. 2. Ten rivers in America's future. -v. 3. Water resources law
Title General report. -v. 2. Ten rivers in America's future. -v. 3. Water resources law PDF eBook
Author United States. Water Resources Policy Commission
Publisher
Pages 524
Release 1950
Genre Hydraulic engineering
ISBN

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