Environmental Monitoring, Assessment, and Management: The Agenda for Long-Term Research and Development

(Hardback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

In 1984, the Conference on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation, convend a series of panel meetings to discuss long-term environmental issues. Environmental Monitoring, Assessment, and Management is the result of that prestigious conference. Drawing on contributions from nationally recognized scientists and experts from industry and government, this collection of papers will help to redirect long-term environmental research and development.

Reviews

"This volume is based upon work supported by the Council on Environmental Quality and the National Science Foundation for the project on long-term environmental research and development. Rather than presenting elements in terms of the important reaction categories, the chemistry underlying the spatial movement of the elements within biological systems, and the metabolism and toxicity of elements in these systems.... [Clearly] written ... suitable only for advanced students and professionals in inorganic biochemistry."-Choice
This is the first of four volumes which derive from expert panels brought together in 1985 by the US Council on Environmental Quality. The objective of this exercise was to evaluate existing environmental R&D activities in the USA and to define the most important areas for the concentration of scarce resources. The four panels covered human health impacts, geochemical and hydrological processes, ecological impacts, and monitoring and assessment. The subject areas of all four groups are outlined in this volume and their conclusions, when reported, should provide a baseline for future environmental research in the USA of considerable significance. . . . This book is certainly worth a library purchase and it will be used by students and teachers of environmental science and management. Together with its three companion volumes, it should provide a valuable official' statement of the state of research and ecological knowledge in the USA in 1985.-Environment & Planning
This volume is based upon work supported by the Council on Environmental Quality and the National Science Foundation for the project on long-term environmental research and development. Rather than presenting elements in terms of the important reaction categories, the chemistry underlying the spatial movement of the elements within biological systems, and the metabolism and toxicity of elements in these systems.... [Clearly] written ... suitable only for advanced students and professionals in inorganic biochemistry.-Choice
"This is the first of four volumes which derive from expert panels brought together in 1985 by the US Council on Environmental Quality. The objective of this exercise was to evaluate existing environmental R&D activities in the USA and to define the most important areas for the concentration of scarce resources. The four panels covered human health impacts, geochemical and hydrological processes, ecological impacts, and monitoring and assessment. The subject areas of all four groups are outlined in this volume and their conclusions, when reported, should provide a baseline for future environmental research in the USA of considerable significance. . . . This book is certainly worth a library purchase and it will be used by students and teachers of environmental science and management. Together with its three companion volumes, it should provide a valuable official' statement of the state of research and ecological knowledge in the USA in 1985."-Environment & Planning

Author Bio

SIDNEY DRAGGAN is a policy analyst in the Division of Policy Research and Analysis, National Science Foundation. rssen /f John /i J. /r ed. rison /f Richard /r ed.