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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Toward Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1877.
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TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY

Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries

Committee on International Soil and Water Research and Development

Water Science and Technology Board

Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems

Board on Science and Technology for International Development

Office of International Affairs

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1991

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Toward Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1877.
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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Toward Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1877.
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COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL SOIL AND WATER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

LEONARD BERRY, Chair,

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

SUSANNA B. HECHT,

University of California, Los Angeles

CHARLES W. HOWE,

University of Colorado, Boulder

JACK KELLER,

Utah State University, Logan

CHARLES McCANTS,

North Carolina State University, Raleigh

HUGH POPENOE,

University of Florida, Gainesville

PAUL TENG,

International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines (through September 1990)

GORO UEHARA,

University of Hawaii, Honolulu

Staff

CHRIS ELFRING, Project Director

PATRICIA CICERO, Project Assistant

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Toward Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1877.
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WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD

DANIEL A. OKUN, Chair,

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

MICHAEL KAVANAUGH, Chair,

James M. Montgomery Consulting Engineers, Walnut Creek, California (through June 1991)

A. DAN TARLOCK, Vice Chair,

Chicago Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois

NORMAN H. BROOKS,

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

RICHARD A CONWAY,

Union Carbide Corporation, South Charleston, West Virginia

KENNETH D. FREDERICK,

Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.

DAVID L. FREYBERG,

Stanford University, California

WILFORD R. GARDNER,

University of California, Berkeley

DUANE L. GEORGESON,

Metropolitan Water District, Los Angeles, California

HOWARD C. KUNREUTHER,

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (through June 1991)

ROBERT R. MEGLEN,

University of Colorado, Denver (through June 1991)

JUDY L. MEYER,

University of Georgia, Athens

DONALD J. O'CONNOR,

HydroQual, Inc., Glen Rock, New Jersey

BETTY H. OLSON,

University of California, Irvine (through June 1991)

STAVROS PAPADOPULOS, S.S.

Papadopulos & Associates, Inc., Rockville, Maryland

KENNETH W. POTTER,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

P. SURESH C. RAO,

University of Florida, Gainesville (through June 1991)

BRUCE E. RITTMANN,

University of Illinois, Urbana

DONALD D. RUNNELLS,

University of Colorado, Boulder

PHILIP C. SINGER,

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

HUGO F. THOMAS,

Department of Environmental Protection, Hartford, Connecticut (through May 1991)

JAMES R. WALLIS,

IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York (through June 1991)

M. GORDON WOLMAN,

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

JOY B. ZEDLER,

San Diego State University, San Diego, California

Staff

STEPHEN D. PARKER, Director

SHEILA D. DAVID, Senior Staff Officer

CHRIS ELFRING, Senior Staff Officer

SARAH CONNICK, Staff Officer

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Toward Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1877.
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JACQUELINE MACDONALD, Research Associate

JEANNE AQUILINO, Administrative Specialist

ANITA A. HALL, Administrative Secretary

PATRICIA CICERO, Project Assistant

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Toward Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1877.
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BOARD ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

ALEXANDER SHAKOW, Chair,

The World Bank

PATRICIA BARNES-MCCONNELL,

Michigan State University

JORDAN J. BARUCH,

Jordan Baruch Associates

BARRY BLOOM,

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

JANE BORTNICK,

Congressional Research Service

GEORGE T. CURLIN,

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

DIRK FRANKENBERG,

University of North Carolina

RALPH W. F. HARDY,

Boyce-Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University

FREDRICK HORNE,

Oregon State University

ELLEN MESSER,

Allan Shaw Feinstein World Hunger Program, Brown University

CHARLES C. MUSCOPLAT,

Molecular Genetics, Inc.

JAMES QUINN,

Dartmouth College

VERNON W. RUTTAN,

University of Minnesota

ANTHONY SAN PIETRO,

Indiana University

ERNEST SMERDON,

University of Arizona

Ex Officio Members

GERALD P. DINEEN, Foreign Secretary,

National Academy of Engineering

JAMES B. WYNGAARDEN, Foreign Secretary,

National Academy of Sciences

Staff

JOHN HURLEY, Director

MICHAEL MCD. DOW, Associate Director

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TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY

Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries

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