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8. Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pages 60-64

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... Those are government agencies acting as quasi-commercial enterprises. That, likewise, gives us great 1National Research Council.
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... 2The tree analogy was originally proposed in the NRC Resolving Conflict report previously cited. For further explanation of the various components, please see Chapter 3 of that report.
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... There is a worldwide seismological network measuring earthquakes. Of particular interest to this group of researchers is that proprietary data from the big oil and gas exploration companies are now being donated into the public domain.
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... You cannot mix restricted data with public-domain data in the trunk because it ruins the transparency and essentially compromises the whole research enterprise. To conclude, publicly funded, shared-use, long-term observational information is essential for sound public policy concerning human interactions with the natural environment.
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... It turns out that not a single one includes a recognizable mechanism by which the different stakeholdersthe government agencies, the policymakers, the scientists, and the private-sector participants can actually get together and work out mutually satisfactory win-win situations of some of the conflicts that are arising. A key conflict that tends to arise is just what is the right definition of the core products at the top of the trunk.
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