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1 online resource (xii, 530 pages) : illustrations, charts. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
National forum on science and technology goals
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National forum on science and technology goals.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Committee report -- Society's environmental goals -- Use social science and risk assessment to make better societal choices -- Focus on monitoring to build better understanding of our ecological systems -- Reduce the adverse impacts of chemicals in the environment -- Development environmental options for the energy system -- Use a systems engineering and ecological approach to reduce resource use -- Improve understanding of the relationship between population and consumption as a means to reducing the environmental impacts of population growth -- Set environmental goals via rates and directions of change. |
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Commissioned papers -- National environmental goals: implementing the laws, visions of the future, and research priorities / Richard D. Morgenstern -- Measurement of environmental quality in the United States / N. Phillip Ross, Carroll Curtis, William Garetz, Eleanor Leonard -- Attitudes toward the environment twenty-five years after Earth Day / Karlyn Bowman -- Environmental goals and science policy: a review of selected countries / Konrad von Moltke -- Can states make a market for environmental goals? / Richard A. Minard, Jr. -- Setting environmental goals: the view from industry. A review of practices from the 1960s to the present /John Ehrenfeld, Jennifer Howard -- Status of ecological knowledge related to policy decision-making needs in the area of biodiversity and ecosystems in the United States / Walter V. Reid -- The federal budget and environmental priorities / Albert H. Teich. |
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Keynote addresses and presentations -- Keynote address / D. James Baker -- Keynote address / Thomas Grumbly -- Keynote address / Barry Gold -- keynote address / Harlan Watson -- Keynote address / David Garman -- Presentations -- Presentation / John Wise, Peter Truit -- Presentation / Judith Espinsoa, Peggy Duxbury -- Presentation / Gilbert S. Omenn. |
| Summary |
Where should the United States focus its long-term efforts to improve the nation's environment? What are the nation's most important environmental issues? What role should science and technology play in addressing these issues? Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals provides the current thinking and answers to these questions. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental risk assessment -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Environmental risk assessment -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Environmental risk assessment. |
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Environmental policy -- United States.
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Environmental policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Policy Division. Linking science and technology to society's environmental goals. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996 0309055784 (DLC) 96047176 (OCoLC)35750503 |
| ISBN |
0585027277 (electronic book) |
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9780585027272 (electronic book) |
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0309055784 (hardback) |
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9780309055789 (hardback) |
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