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1 At the National Leadership Level
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... Whether we succeed or fail in meeting this challenge wid be determined, in part, by how we respond to immediate demands to address human health and economic growth in the context of the wide range of crucial, environmentally related decisions made every day by insurance companies, water resource managers, agribusiness, households, city planners, public health officials, and countless others. Rising to this challenge wiD entail using natural resources as efficientiv as possible devising nr~1 ~ ~ -, ~ = r~~ · , ..
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... Critical examples of these information gaps include the absence of a precise, sustained, and comprehensive climate observing system, inadequate coverage of carbon flux measurements that define sources and sinks, the inability to define ultraviolet dosage levels and the causes for mi~atitude ozone erosion, and ineffective attempts at mapping sulfate-nttrate~rganic-heavy-metal emissions on the urban-to-regtonal scale. To make vital, informed decisions on the basis of these and many Other types of data, substantial improvements in observations of the atmosphere, surface and ground water, oceans, and ecosystems, as wed as relevant economic and societal data, wid be required.
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... Global Change Research Program and other environmental research that we now see as increasingly interconnected with global environmental change, needs to address these obstacles. Doing so wiD catalyze the study of global change and human-env~ronment interactions, thereby providing the foundation for a healthy society, economy, and environment all three of which are inextricably intertwined.
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... Specific responsibility and resources must be assigned to the integration of multipleagency programs. Only by recognizing the nature of the challenges that wiD be present flaring the next few years and by showing early and innovative leadership can the tremendous capacity of the research community, the operational mission agencies, state and local governments, and the private sector be brought together to serve society and the environment.
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