Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals

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Front Matter	i-xii
Part I: Committee Report	1-2	(skim)
Summary	3-14	(skim)
Society's Environmental Goals	15-26	(skim)
Use Social Science and Risk Assessment to Make Better Societal Choices	27-36	(skim)
Focus on Monitoring to Build Better Understanding of Our Ecological Systems	37-50	(skim)
Reduce the Adverse Impacts of Chemicals in the Environment	51-60	(skim)
Develop Environmental Options for the Energy System	61-72	(skim)
Use a Systems Engineering and Ecological Approach to Reduce Resource Use	73-80	(skim)
Improve Understanding of the Relationship Between Population and Consumption as a Means to Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Population Growth	81-86	(skim)
Set Environmental Goals Via Rates and Directions of Change	87-90	(skim)
Bibliography	91-94	(skim)
Part II: Commissioned Papers	95-96	(skim)
National Environmental Goals: Implementing the Laws, Visions of the Future, and Research	97-134	(skim)
Measurement of Environmental Quality in the United States	135-178	(skim)
Attitudes Toward the Environment Twenty-Five Years After Earth Day	179-190	(skim)
Environmental Goals and Science Policy: A Review of Selected Countries	191-242	(skim)
Can States Make a Market for Environmental Goals?	243-280	(skim)
Setting Environmental Goals: The View from Industry. A Review of Practices from the 1960s	281-326	(skim)
Status of Ecological Knowledge Related to Policy Decision-Making Needs in the Area of	327-344	(skim)
The Federal Budget and Environmental Priorities	345-398	(skim)
Part III: Keynote Addresses and Presentations	399-400	(skim)
D. James Baker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	401-406	(skim)
Thomas Grumbly, U.S. Department of Energy	407-412	(skim)
Barry Gold, U.S. Department of the Interior	413-418	(skim)
Harlan Watson, House Committee on Science	419-422	(skim)
David Garman, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources	423-430	(skim)
John Wise and Peter Truitt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	431-436	(skim)
Judith Espinosa and Peggy Duxbury, President's Council on	437-448	(skim)
Gilbert S. Omenn, University of Washington	449-462	(skim)
Part IV: Appendixes	463-464	(skim)
A Committee Member and Staff Biographical Information	465-470	(skim)
B Forum Agenda	471-474	(skim)
C Forum Participants	475-482	(skim)
D Summary of Responses to Call for Comments	483-488	(skim)
E Respondents to Call for Comments	489-496	(skim)
F Summary of Breakout-Group Discussions	497-500	(skim)
G Detecting Changes in Time and Space	501-504	(skim)
H Contents and Executive Summary of a Report of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government	505-516	(skim)
Index	517-530	(skim)

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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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