Global Environmental Change reviews the facts and the uncertainties relating to some of the major environmental issues facing us today--greenhouse warming, loss of stratospheric ozone, and acid precipitation--and shows how these facts and uncertainties are dealt with by both governmental and nongovernmental agencies. Anticipated environmental changes in future decades are described and explained, and the consequences of those projected changes are described for rise of sea level, water resources, agriculture, ecological systems, and other topics. Three chapters of the study are devoted to the roles of academic institutions, government agencies, and nongovernmental agencies in developing and implementing policies. Another chapter discusses the relationship of U.S. research and environmental policy to international research and environmental policy, emphasizing how new concepts relating to global change have emerged from earlier research and out of the growing recognition of the seriousness of environmental problems. Finally, the work addresses the need for more effective interactions of science and policy.
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?Publication of this splendid little book is timely. The compact between science and society drawn up 50 years ago in the immediate post-World War II years by Vannevar Bush's seminal Science-The Endless Frontier is up for renewal. By describing the interaction between the environmental sciences and public policy, Fleagle has presented a case study that should help to illuminate the lively discussions now under way on the need for a new compact. His account has important implications for the terms of that compact. It should be required reading for scholars and practitioners in science and public policy.?- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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This study examines how threats to the environment--the facts and probable impacts of global environment change--deserve local, national, and international attention.
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With the Exxon/GM Motors sponsored jury still out on this issue, Fleagles book poses the pertinent question - what causes the most severe damage to the environment? Cutting down millions of trees or planting one Bush?
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President John F. Kennedy's voice rang clearly throughout the House chamber: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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President John F. Kennedy's voice rang clearly throughout the House chamber: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ospheric ozone, global change policy, atmospheric research program, halocarbon gases, world weather watch, international research programs, ozone research, global change research, science advisor, acid precipitation, policy landscape, atmospheric sciences Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, White House, National Academy of Sciences, United Nations, Global Change Research Program, Intergovernmental Panel, World Meteorological Organization, International Geophysical Year, Montreal Protocol, National Science Foundation, Weather Bureau, Clean Air Act, Carnegie Commission, Global Atmospheric Research Program, President Kennedy, Second World War, Executive Office of the President, Government Printing Office, National Research Council, North America, Office of Technology Assessment, State Department, Bert Bolin, General Assembly New!
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- State of the World 2003 by The Worldwatch Institute on 4 pages
- Science: The Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush on page 122, page 145, and Back Matter
- Climate System Modeling by Kevin E. Trenberth on page 36, page 59, and Back Matter
- Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet, Enlarged Edition by Richard Elliot Benedick on page 148, page 196, and Back Matter
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Energy Dimension by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on page 60, page 82, and Back Matter
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