Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals

National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Part I: Committee Report; 3 Summary; 4 Society's Environmental Goals; 5 Use Social Science and Risk Assessment to Make Better Societal Choices; 6 Focus on Monitoring to Build Better Understanding of Our Ecological Systems; 7 Reduce the Adverse Impacts of Chemicals in the Environment; 8 Develop Environmental Options for the Energy System; 9 Use a Systems Engineering and Ecological Approach to Reduce Resource Use; 10 Improve Understanding of the Relationship Between Population and Consumption as a Means to Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Population Growth; 11 Set Environmental Goals Via Rates and Directions of Change; 12 Bibliography; 13 Part II: Commissioned Papers; 14 National Environmental Goals: Implementing the Laws, Visions of the Future, and Research; 15 Measurement of Environmental Quality in the United States; 16 Attitudes Toward the Environment Twenty-Five Years After Earth Day; 17 Environmental Goals and Science Policy: A Review of Selected Countries; 18 Can States Make a Market for Environmental Goals?; 19 Setting Environmental Goals: The View from Industry. A Review of Practices from the 1960s; 20 Status of Ecological Knowledge Related to Policy Decision-Making Needs in the Area of; 21 The Federal Budget and Environmental Priorities; 22 Part III: Keynote Addresses and Presentations; 23 D. James Baker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; 24 Thomas Grumbly, U.S. Department of Energy; 25 Barry Gold, U.S. Department of the Interior; 26 Harlan Watson, House Committee on Science; 27 David Garman, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; 28 John Wise and Peter Truitt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 29 Judith Espinosa and Peggy Duxbury, President's Council on; 30 Gilbert S. Omenn, University of Washington; 31 Part IV: Appendixes; 32 A Committee Member and Staff Biographical Information; 33 B Forum Agenda; 34 C Forum Participants; 35 D Summary of Responses to Call for Comments; 36 E Respondents to Call for Comments; 37 F Summary of Breakout-Group Discussions; 38 G Detecting Changes in Time and Space; 39 H Contents and Executive Summary of a Report of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government; 40 Index