Opportunities in Applied Environmental Research and Development (1991) / Chapter Skim
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General Conclusions and Recommendations
General Conclusions and Recommendations
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Environmental research must be more stably and adequately supported across aR four of its funcho=. Applied ~:h should be dimpled toward the most serious en~ronmentaI hazards, toward their root causes and the most promise opportunities to reduce them, and toward topics that are amenable to good applied research; it should not be driven merely by cumot regulatory priorities or news media coverage.
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It requires understanding Of the economics of material and energy use, and of the human behavior patterns and influencing factors that drive economic patterns; and it requires empirical evaluation of the effects of policy incentives, both those intended to reduce waste and those that might inadvertently increase it. Understanding of environmental processes, health effects, and pollution-control technologies is also necessary, but by itself it is insufficient to meet the goal of environmental protection.
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Addressing these inadequacies requires a coordinated research program to identify key ecosystem-level characteristics of structure and function and to use them as environmental indexes to provide better information about the relationships between natural variability and anthropogen~c perturbations m ecosystems. Such a program requires a core of common concepts, indicators, and standardize methods directed to the management objectives of ecosystem and landscape heady and susta~nabilitr and an integrated large-scale, long-term national program for regionally focused ecosystem monitoring, research, and risk assessment.
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Others could may be adde - indoor air pollution, noncancer health hazards to sensitive populations, and methods for restoration of damaged ecosystems, for exampie~and new problems undoubtedly win continue to be identified. The great environmental priorities of the coming cenb~stabifi7fug human populations and developing sustainable relationships between their economic wants and needs and the ecosystems that support theme require far more serious and creative research commitments An now exist, either in EPA or elsewhere.
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A recent report on the mission and functioning of EPA's SAB, for example, noted that its overall purview is science for environmental protection, not merely ensuring the quality of the science base for regulation. Its cement functions include reviewing regulatory science, research propane and the "ethnical bases for various applied programs and advising EPA on inEastructural and technical management issues, emergencies, and broad strategic matters.
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Report of the Research Strategies Committee, Science Advisory Board Report No.
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INTRODUCTION 9 Epidemiology and Air Pollution. Wagon, D.C.: National Academy Press.
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