Environmental Research and Education Needs: An Agenda for a New Administration
This report presents the collective recommendations of more than 5000 scientists, engineers, students, and decisionmakers who have participated from 2000-2008 in the annual National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment convened by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). It identifies research needed to improve scientific knowledge, and education needed to improve public understanding, professional capacity and a strong workforce. |
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Climate Change: Science and Solutions
January 16-18, 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC
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| The 8th National Conference was an opportunity for dialogue with leading scientists, policy makers, industry leaders, educators, and other solutions-oriented innovators to develop comprehensive strategies for protecting people and the planet against the threat of climate change. [more] |
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Now Available:
8th John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture
John P. Holdren
President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center; Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Enviornmental Policy, Harvard University
Meeting the Climate Change Challenge
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Integrating Environmental and Human Health
February 1-2, 2007 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC
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The 7th National Conference addressed the many essential roles the environment plays on our well-being today, and how the health of people and the health of the planet are intrinsically, intricately, and intimately interconnected. Despite this, the fields of health science and practice and environmental science and practice have grown increasingly apart over the past half-century. The report presents a series of prescriptions for the difficult but necessary task of integration of environmental and health perspectives, which may have far-reaching consequences for society... [more]
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 2007 Chafee Memorial Lecture
Climate, Poverty and Health: Time for Preventative Medicine (PDF)
Larry Brilliant
Executive Director, Google.org
An HTML version of the lecture can be found on the Encylopedia of the Earth.
PowerPoint Presentation
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 2007 Conference Report
Integrating Environment and Health (PDF)
A Report of the 7th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment
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Energy for a Sustainable and Secure Future
January 26-27, 2006 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC
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 The 6th National Conference identified opportunities for science and technology to improve the decisions that define our energy future. Participants will explored the central issues relating to energy and society at the intersection of science, policy and the environment. More...
Visit the 2006 Conference Website
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 2006 Chafee Memorial Lecture
Finding Climate Change and Being Useful (PDF)
Ralph J. Cicerone
President, National Academy of Sciences
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2006 Conference Report
Energy for a Sustainable and Secure Future (PDF)
A Report of the 6th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment
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Forecasting Environmental Changes
February 3-4, 2005 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC
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 Visit the 2005 Conference Website
Download 2005 Conference Report: Forecasting Environmental Changes
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2005 Chafee Memorial Lecture, Choosing our Common Future: Democracy's True Test
William D. Ruckelshaus, First and Fifth Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Water for a Sustainable and Secure Future
January 29-30, 2004 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC
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Visit the 2004 Conference Site
Download 2004 Conference Report: Water for a Sustainable and Secure Future
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 2004 Chafee Memorial Lecture
Lessons from Environmental Collapses of Past Societies
Pulitzer Prize winner Jared M. Diamond discusses the relationship between natural resource management and the stability of human society.
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Education for a Sustainable and Secure Future
January 30-31, 2003 |
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 Visit the 2003 Conference Site
Download 2003 Conference Report: Recommendations for Education for a Sustainable and Secure Future
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2003 Chafee Memorial Lecture, Obstinate Issues, Sophisticated Solutions: Environmental Research and Education for a New Age
NSF Director Rita Colwell speaks of the need for and the progress made in education for sustainability .
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Sustainable Communities: Science and Solutions
December 6-7, 2001
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2001 Conference Report
Recommendations for Achieving Sustainable Communities
The recommendations in this report address water, children's health, business, sustainable energy, remote sensing, rural communities, urban design, and more. They emphasize integrating community participation with science and technology.
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 View 2001 Chafee Memorial Lecture, The Future of Life
Renowned ecologist and sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson speaks about human influences on biodiversity and the challenges of raising standards of living for humans around the world while keeping intact as much of the natural world as possible.
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Improving the Scientific Basis for Environmental Decisionmaking
December 7-8, 2000
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2000 Conference Report
Recommendations for Improving the Scientific Basis for Environmental Decisionmaking
This report focuses on improving the scientific basis for decisionsmaking in the areas of biodiversity, global change, sustainable resource management, environmental indicators, and more.
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2000 Chafee Memorial Lecture, The CFC-Ozone Puzzle: Environmental Science in the Global Arena
Nobel Laureates Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina discuss their startling discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica in the 1980s.
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