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4 EPA's Position in the Broader Environmental Research Enterprise
4 EPA's Position in the Broader Environmental Research Enterprise
Pages 49-58
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This chapter focuses on EPA's evolving research mission as it relates to the work of other organizations that also conduct environmental research. PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTEIER GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR Understanding and successfully addressing complex environmental problems requires extensive research over a broad range of scientific disciplines (see, for example, Box 4-1~.
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Illustrative examples include the following: · The establishment of a joint EPA-NSF competitive grants programs in water and watersheds; technology for a sustainable environment; and valuation studies for environmental policy. These programs highlight the need for broad interdisciplinary environmental research and take advantage of the NSF's engagement of the very broad scientific community and experience with peer review.
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The program's primary mission is to coordinate and enhance scientific research and assessment of tropospheric ozone behavior, with the central programmatic goal of determining workable, efficient, and effective strategies for local and regional ozone control. · The coordination of research activities and collaboration with other scientists from federal, state, and local agencies and other organizations demonstrated in EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
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In addition, the ability of EPA researchers to then articulate and transfer this knowledge to support the development and implementation of environmental policy is critical to the agency's mission. The committee recommends that EPA ensure research staff participation in interagency coordination efforts and in scientific meetings and conferences and provide incentives and rewards to those who seek out and work with their counterparts in other organizations.
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Indeed, EPA is encouraged to press ahead with efforts to develop a national environmental monitoring program working with the Office of Science and Technology Policy and other agencies. Monitoring databases provide histories of environmental change and can be examined to ascertain the statistical relationships between human activities and environmental responses, between regulations and pollutant types and inputs, and between human responses and different types of incentives or disincentives designed to influence voluntary actions affecting the environment.
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A recently initiated NRC study on this topic, sponsored by EPA, should assist EPA and others in determining what aspects of environmental conditions and trends should be monitored for various purposes, what is known about successful biological indicators, what aspects of ecosystems have been particularly difficult to develop useful indicators for, and where research is most likely to yield useful results. Another difficult challenge related to environmental monitoring where EPA could play a major role is in the development of more comprehensive models of integrated environmental systems.
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