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Opportunities in Applied Environmental Research and Development
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This report provides an overview of several fundamental issues and priorities in applied environmental research and development. Specifically, it identifies detailed topics for investigation in the following four areas: • Waste reduction. • Ecosystem and landscape change. • Anticipatory research. • Long-term chemical toxicity. Research topics in each area were developed in a series of four workshops during 1989; the selection of workshop topics and participants and the identification of themes and issues were carried out by the National Research Council's Committee on Opportunities in Applied Environmental Research and Development. This report, in part, attempts a look into the future—which not all persons see with equal definition and clarity. This report is a summary of the joint expert opinions of specialists in several fields. Only the first section of this document is the report of the committee; the appendices seek to capture the broader range of ideas suggested during workshop meetings. As a matter of historical policy, research supported by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been linked closely to its mission. In 1981, the chairman and staff director of a congressional research oversight subcommittee expressed this principle as follows: One of our fundamental premises is that EPA should conduct or fund only such research activities as will support its mission. That mission ... is well defined [by federal statutes], and the need is to translate legislated regulatory objectives into criteria for managing research .... The problems facing the agency exist now; so the question for EPA research managers becomes . . . how to plan and operate a program that will be supportive of the immediate agency mission. (Brown and Byerly, 1981)
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1991
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