• Front Matter R1-R12

• Part I: Committee Report 1-2

• Summary 3-14

• Society's Environmental Goals 15-26

• Use Social Science and Risk Assessment to Make Better Societal Choices 27-36

• Focus on Monitoring to Build Better Understanding of Our Ecological Systems 37-50

• Reduce the Adverse Impacts of Chemicals in the Environment 51-60

• Develop Environmental Options for the Energy System 61-72

• Use a Systems Engineering and Ecological Approach to Reduce Resource Use 73-80

• Improve Understanding of the Relationship Between Population and Consumption as a Means to Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Population Growth 81-86

• Set Environmental Goals Via Rates and Directions of Change 87-90

• Bibliography 91-94

• Part II: Commissioned Papers 95-96

• National Environmental Goals: Implementing the Laws, Visions of the Future, and Research 97-134

• Measurement of Environmental Quality in the United States 135-178

• Attitudes Toward the Environment Twenty-Five Years After Earth Day 179-190

• Environmental Goals and Science Policy: A Review of Selected Countries 191-242

• Can States Make a Market for Environmental Goals? 243-280

• Setting Environmental Goals: The View from Industry. A Review of Practices from the 1960s 281-326

• Status of Ecological Knowledge Related to Policy Decision-Making Needs in the Area of 327-344

• The Federal Budget and Environmental Priorities 345-398

• Part III: Keynote Addresses and Presentations 399-400

• D. James Baker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 401-406

• Thomas Grumbly, U.S. Department of Energy 407-412

• Barry Gold, U.S. Department of the Interior 413-418

• Harlan Watson, House Committee on Science 419-422

• David Garman, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 423-430

• John Wise and Peter Truitt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 431-436

• Judith Espinosa and Peggy Duxbury, President's Council on 437-448

• Gilbert S. Omenn, University of Washington 449-462

• Part IV: Appendixes 463-464

• A Committee Member and Staff Biographical Information 465-470

• B Forum Agenda 471-474

• C Forum Participants 475-482

• D Summary of Responses to Call for Comments 483-488

• E Respondents to Call for Comments 489-496

• F Summary of Breakout-Group Discussions 497-500

• G Detecting Changes in Time and Space 501-504

• H Contents and Executive Summary of a Report of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government 505-516

• Index 517-530

" Setting Environmental Goals: The View from Industry. A Review of Practices from the 1960s ." Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1996 .

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