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... Privatizing government functions or creating public-private partnerships is not always the best solution for meeting the needs of all environmental stakeholder groups, particularly if the net result is a reduction of information that resides in the public domain. THE NEED FOR A PROCESS OF NEGOTIATING AMONG STAKEHOLDERS The requirement that the information system serve multiple uses leads to the involvement of groups of stakeholders- research scientists, private-sector organizations, government agencies, policy makers, and the general public whose interests may not entirely coincide.
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... One nexus is the selection of core products to be made available for public distribution, and hence of priorities for the underlying observations. The other nexus is the determination of detailed requirements for data from the individual observation systems that comprise the roots.
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