Preparing for the 21st Century: The Environment and the Human Future (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Preparing for the 21st Century: The Environment and the Human Future
Preparing for the 21st Century: The Environment and the Human Future
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· Setting appropriate goals and priorities for environmentalcleanup initiatives. · Pricing goods and services to reflect total societal costs, including environmental consequences.
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· Gain a better understanding of the relationship between diet and cancer by improving testing methods, expanding epidemiological studies, and cleveloping more data on what people eat. - Encourage the public and private sectors to cooperate in gathering, analyzing, understan(ling, and maintaining scientific information on the nations biological resources.
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Changes in the Endangered Species Act that reflect this and other new understandings of how to protect threatened species could improve the act's effectiveness and reduce the conflicts over human use of resources that it has engendered. In some cases, research has pointed to environmental policies that are flawed or even counterproductive because of their failure to incorporate available scientific and technical information.
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Upstream: Salmon and Society in the Pacific Northwest, Committee on Protection and Management of Pacific Northwest Anadromous Salmonids, 1995 · B-6. River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon, Committee to Review the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies, 1996 Better Scientific anal Technical Understantding Is Required for Policymaking In many instances, the scientific and technical information available today is inadequate tO support complete and unambiguous solutions tO complex environmental problems.
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For more information: · Ward Valley: An Examination of Seven Issues in Earth Sciences and Ecology, Committee to Review Specific Scientific and Technical Safety Issues Related to the Ward Valley, California, Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site, 1995 · Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, Committee on Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, 1995 the relationship between the available animal data and human diets. Improved testing methods, expanded epidemiological studies, and more data on the effects of diet on humans are needed to gain a better understanding of how diet can contribute to cancer.
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Building Consensus Through Risk Assessment and Management of the Department of Energy's Environmental Remediation Program, Committee to Review Risk Management in the DOE's Environmental Remediation Program, 1994 · D-3. Ranking Hazardous Waste Sites for Remedial Action, Committee on Remedial Action Priorities for Hazardous Waste Sites, 1994 The Pricing of Goods and Services ShouId Reflect Total Social Costs, Including Environmental Consequences The social sciences can help to improve the quality of the nation's environmental policies.
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Because insurance costs are a substantial fraction of the operating costs of a vehicle, collecting a portion of them at the gas pump instead of by a direct payment to the insurance company might provide an important incentive for moreefficient use of fuel—with no net out-of-pocket impact on the average consumer. Economic incentives can have a powerful effect on the traffic congestion that frustrates millions of American motorists every working day.
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(G-1) Industrial ecology, which treats industry in much the same way that biologists view natural ecosystems, applies a systems perspective to producer and consumer activities in order tO reduce waste.
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Technology is therefore a key component of national and international efforts to achieve environmentally sustainable clevelopment for all nations. Governments should encourage industry to develop and deploy environmentally advantageous technologies through economic incentives and support universities and other research institutions in developing and implementing these technologies.
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Under the authority of the charter granted to it by Congress in 1863, the Academy has a working mandate that calls on it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters.
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