Skip to main content

Research to Protect, Restore, and Manage the Environment (1993) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

1 Introduction
Pages 17-22

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 17...
... The charge to our committee follows the legislative resolution that led to our creation: The study committee will review existing federal programs for the support of environmental research and training, and examine ways to improve these programs, including proposals to establish a National Institutes for the Environment. It may, if appropriate, recommend actions by the federal government that would improve the science base in environmental protection and resource management.
Read the entire page →
From page 18...
... Chapters 3 and 4 contain commentary on issues mentioned in the charge, such as the balance of intramural and extramural funding of environmental research and the means for using the scientific findings of environmental research to inform environmental policy decisions. Chapter 5 uses the needs identified in Chapter 3 and the desirable characteristics described in Chapter 4 to construct a series of recommendations for changing the culture for the performance of environmental research and for organizing it within the federal government.
Read the entire page →
From page 19...
... The report gives an excellent view of what the federal government is doing in environmental research, and we have relied on it for our own examination of federal programs and for financial information concerning the federal environmental programs described in Appendix A NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE ENVIRONMENT: CHOOSING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE This report (Train, 1992)
Read the entire page →
From page 20...
... · That EPA have a major research role and that its laboratory system be consolidated into a smaller number of laboratories. EPA should establish six environmental research institutes associated with academic institutions with research support (each with a $10-15 million annual research budget)
Read the entire page →
From page 21...
... Bills to elevate the EPA to cabinet level were introduced into the House of Representatives and Senate, and they moved ahead rapidly into the legislative process. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt has taken steps to reorganize environmental research, including creation of a National Biological Survey, in his department; another committee of the Research Council has been formed to advise the Department of the Interior in this regard.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • national environmental
  • environmental quality
  • desirable characteristics
  • extramural funding
  • federal environmental

  • including proposals
  • inform environmental
  • current environmental
  • include consideration
  • including current

  • six environmental
  • nearly coincident
  • environmental considerations
  • provides data
  • science base

  • environmental intellectual
  • existing federal
  • epa environmental
  • annual research
  • interior bruce

  • financial information
  • consider appropriate
  • organize environmental
  • congress enact
  • describes current

  • intramural programs
  • review existing
  • disciplinary research
  • establish six
  • training activities


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.