David Pimentel
Biographic Data
| ID | 91162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Pimentel |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Pimentel |
| SIGNATURE | PIMENTEL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5897-0171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Forfeiture Policy in the United States: Is There Hope for Reform
Biofuel production using food
Energy production from corn
Small amounts of pesticides reaching target insects
World overpopulation
Nuclear War Investigation Related to a Limited Nuclear Battle with Emphasis on Agricultural Impacts in the United States
Global climate interdisciplinary science for the COP17 in Durban, South Africa
Population crash: Prospects for famine in the twenty-first century
Carbon capture by biomass and soil are sound: CO2 burial wastes energy
Will Limited Land, Water, and Energy Control Human Population Numbers in the Future
Biofuel Food Disasters and Cellulosic Ethanol Problems
As shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, become evident, the United States has moved to convert corn grain into ethanol with the goal to make the nation oil independent. Using more than 20% of all U.S. corn on 15 million acres in 2007 was providing the nation with less than 1% of U.S. oil consumption. Because the corn ethanol project has been a disaster, there is growing interest to develop cellulosic ethanol. Wood, grasses,…
Energy efficiency and conservation for individual Americans
Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services
Reducing Energy Inputs in the Agricultural Production System
Oil, natural gas, coal, and other mined fuels provide the United States with nearly all of its energy needs at a cost $700 billion per year.1 Since more than 90 percent of its oil deposits have been depleted, the United States now imports over 70 percent of its oil at an annual cost of $400 billion.2 United States agriculture is driven almost entirely by these non-renewable energy sources. Each person in the country on a per capita consumption ba…
Food Versus Biofuels: Environmental and Economic Costs
Reducing Energy Inputs in the US Food System
Ecology of Increasing Diseases: Population Growth and Environmental Degradation
Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat
Global environmental resources versus world population growth
Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower
Environmental, Energetic, and Economic Comparisons of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems
Various organic technologies have been utilized for about 6000 years to make agriculture sustainable while conserving soil, water, energy, and biological resources. Among the benefits of organic technologies are higher soil organic matter and nitrogen, lower fossil energy inputs, yields similar to those of conventional systems, and conservation of soil moisture and water resources (especially advantageous under drought conditions). Conventional a…
Environmental and Economic Costs of the Application of Pesticides Primarily in the United States’
Update on the environmental and economic costs associated with alien-invasive species in the United States
US Energy Conservation and Efficiency: Benefits and Costs
Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment
Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment
Nat iona l and international economic policy has usually ignored the environment. In areas where the environment is beginning to impinge on policy, as in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it remains a tangential concern, and the presumption is often made that economic growth and economic liberalization (including the liberalization of intemational trade) are, in some sense, good…
The Value of Forests to World Food Security
Natural resources and an optimum human population
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
Ecology of Increasing Diseases: Population Growth and Environmental Degradation
Food Versus Biofuels: Environmental and Economic Costs
Reducing Energy Inputs in the US Food System
Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services
Ethanol fuels: Energy security, economics, and the environment
An Optimum Population for North and Latin America
Will Limited Land, Water, and Energy Control Human Population Numbers in the Future
Environmental Risks of Pesticides Versus Genetic Engineering for Agricultural Pest Control
Bioethics of fish production: Energy and the environment
Achieving a secure energy future: Environmental and economic issues
Energy, economics, and the environment are interdependent. Land, water, atmospheric, and biological resources are being degraded by current high energy consumption. U.S. energy consumption is the highest in the world and the U.S. Department of Energy reports that the United States has only about 10 years of known and potentially discoverable oil reserves. The U.S. should reduce its energy consumption by one half to help restore the quality of the…
Global warming, population growth, and natural resources for food production
About one‐quarter million people daily are added to the 5.3 billion that already exist on earth. This rapidly growing population is increasing the pressures on the global environment, threatening its ability to supply itself with adequate amounts of food, water, and fuel and with a quality environment. The growing use of fossil fuels, deforestation, and other human activities is increasing CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The pro…
Impact of Population Growth on Food Supplies and Environment
Limits to population size: Three scenarios of energy interaction between human society and ecosystem
Economic benefits of natural biota
Amounts of pesticides reaching target pests: Environmental impacts and ethics
Reducing Energy Inputs in the Agricultural Production System
Oil, natural gas, coal, and other mined fuels provide the United States with nearly all of its energy needs at a cost $700 billion per year.1 Since more than 90 percent of its oil deposits have been depleted, the United States now imports over 70 percent of its oil at an annual cost of $400 billion.2 United States agriculture is driven almost entirely by these non-renewable energy sources. Each person in the country on a per capita consumption ba…
Too Many People for Food Resources and the Environment
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Economics and energetics of organic and conventional farming
Food Production and the Energy Crisis
The principal raw material of modern U.S. agriculture is fossil fuel, whereas the labor input is relatively small (about 9 hours per crop acre). As agriculture is dependent upon fossil energy, crop production costs will also soar when fuel costs increase two- to fivefold. A return of 2.8 kcal of corn per 1 kcal of fuel input may then be uneconomical. Green revolution agriculture also uses high energy crop production technology, especially with re…
Pest Control Strategies
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
Seventeenth century organic agriculture in China: I. Cropping systems in Jiaxing region
Perennial Grains – An Ecology of New Crops
About 90% of human food in the world comes from only 15 crops. New crops are needed to improve agricultural ecology because of the risks of relying on so few crops. Increased cultivation of perennial grains, adapted to the temperate region, would reduce fuel inputs for tillage and would help control the world's most serious environmental problem, soil erosion. The ecology and yield of several wild perennials, which have potential to be used to au…
Seventeenth century organic agriculture in China: II. Energy flows through an agroecosystem in Jiaxing region
Genetic Engineering, Agriculture, and Environmental Policy
The international farm crisis
Energy efficiency: Assessing the interaction between humans and their environment
Ethanol fuels: Energy security, economics, and the environment
Global warming, population growth, and natural resources for food production
About one‐quarter million people daily are added to the 5.3 billion that already exist on earth. This rapidly growing population is increasing the pressures on the global environment, threatening its ability to supply itself with adequate amounts of food, water, and fuel and with a quality environment. The growing use of fossil fuels, deforestation, and other human activities is increasing CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The pro…
World agriculture and the enviroment
Limits to population size: Three scenarios of energy interaction between human society and ecosystem
Labor productivity: A biophysical definition and assessment
Land use changes in Europe
Economics and energetics of organic and conventional farming
Achieving a secure energy future: Environmental and economic issues
Energy, economics, and the environment are interdependent. Land, water, atmospheric, and biological resources are being degraded by current high energy consumption. U.S. energy consumption is the highest in the world and the U.S. Department of Energy reports that the United States has only about 10 years of known and potentially discoverable oil reserves. The U.S. should reduce its energy consumption by one half to help restore the quality of the…
Natural resources and an optimum human population
Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment
National and international economic policy has usually ignored the environment. In areas where the environment is beginning to impinge on policy, as in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it remains a tangential concern, and the presumption is often made that economic growth and economic liberalization (including the liberalization of international trade) are, in some sense, good …
Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits
Soil erosion is a major environmental threat to the sustainability and productive capacity of agriculture. During the last 40 years, nearly one-third of the world's arable land has been lost by erosion and continues to be lost at a rate of more than 10 million hectares per year. With the addition of a quarter of a million people each day, the world population's food demand is increasing at a time when per capita food productivity is beginning to …
Investing in natural capital
Amounts of pesticides reaching target pests: Environmental impacts and ethics
Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment
Nat iona l and international economic policy has usually ignored the environment. In areas where the environment is beginning to impinge on policy, as in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it remains a tangential concern, and the presumption is often made that economic growth and economic liberalization (including the liberalization of intemational trade) are, in some sense, good…
Investing in natural capital
Agriculture and environmental change
Economics (45 works) · Biology (39 works) · Agriculture (31 works) · Geography (31 works) · Ecology (29 works) · Environmental Science (29 works) · Natural resource economics (29 works) · Business (22 works) · Agricultural economics (19 works) · Population (18 works)