Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals (1996) / Chapter Skim
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D Summary of Responses to Call for Comments
D Summary of Responses to Call for Comments
Pages 483-488
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• Demonstrate and define the effectiveness and efficiency of available environmental remediation techniques and make these techniques faster, safer, cheaper, more innovative, and more effective. A smaller group of more technical responses followed some of the themes outlined above: • Determine the fundamental mechanism causing a problem and the source of that cause, including spelling out the underlying physical processes involved, 483
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• Develop more advanced measurement instrumentation and platforms that provide more accurate, detailed, timely, and cost-effective assessment of pollutant distributions, background biogeochemical states and processes, interactive monitoring, and real-time information. • Better manage science and technology, including balancing facts and figures with human dimensions of cooperation, attitudes, and issues.
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We envision an American society where healthy and economically secure people sustain -- and are sustained by -- a healthy environment. Every person breathes clean air; drinks clean water; eats safe food; and lives, works, and plays in clean, pleasant, and safe surroundings.
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education. Some specific responses included: • Failure to understand relation between economic activity and environ mental perturbations • Lack of individual responsibility and understanding • Lack of focus on the 20% of issues that are causing 80% of the problems • Government regulation • Political forces • Lack of systems approach • Capital and human resources • Cost-competitive technologies • Adversarial relationship among business, government, and envirocrats • Effective market incentives.
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Some suggested questions follow: • How do we take action on environmental goals? -- Technology development -- Relationship with other countries -- Scientific research -- Pollution prevention -- Society communication -- Policy and institutional design -- Tools development -- Balancing of cost and benefits • What are possible, probable, and preferable outcomes in next 20-50 years if we don't achieve our goals?
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