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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1995-05-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309052866 |
Download Review of EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the fourth and final volume reviewing EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP). After 4 years of review, the authoring committee retains its belief that EMAP's goals are laudable. However, because achieving the goals of this ambitious program will require that EMAP successfully meet the difficult scientific, practical, and management challenges, the committee continues to question whether and how well all these goals can be achieved. This final overall review reiterates that general assessment.
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review the EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Environmental monitoring |
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Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : National Academies |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Environmental monitoring |
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Author | : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Ecology |
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Download Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) cumulative bibliography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Shabeg S. Sandhu |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401149763 |
Download Monitoring Ecological Condition at Regional Scales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program was created by EPA to develop the capability for tracking the changing conditions of our natural resources and to give environmental policy the advantages ofa sound scientific understanding of trends. Former EPA Administrators recognized early that contemporary monitoring programs could not even quantify simple unknowns like the number of lakes suffering from acid rain, let along determine if national control policies were benefiting these lakes. Today, adding to acidification impacts are truly complex problems such as determining the effects of climate change, of increases in ultraviolet light, toxic chemicals, eutrophication and critical habitat loss. Also today, the Government Performance and Results Act seeks to have agencies develop performance standards based on results rather than simply on levels of programmatic activities. The charge to EMAP of ecosystems is, therefore, the same today as it was a with respect to measuring the condition decade ago. We welcome the increasing urgency for sound scientific monitoring methods and data by efforts to protect and improve the environment. Systematic nationwide monitoring of natural resources is more than anyone program can accomplish, however. In an era of declining budgets, it is crucial that monitoring programs at all levels of government coordinate and share environmental data. EMAP resources are dwarfed by the more than $500 million spent on federal monitoring activities each year.
Author | : Jennifer Helmick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Environmental impact analysis |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2008-06-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309178193 |
Download Evaluating Research Efficiency in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other agencies. Assessing efficiency should be considered only one part of gauging a program's quality, relevance, and effectiveness. The efficiency of research processes and that of investments should be evaluated using different approaches. Investment efficiency should examine whether an agency's R&D portfolio, including the budget, is relevant, of high quality, matches the agency's strategic plan. These evaluations require panels of experts. In contrast, process efficiency should focus on "inputs" (the people, funds, and facilities dedicated to research) and "outputs" (the services, grants, publications, monitoring, and new techniques produced by research), as well as their timelines and should be evaluated using quantitative measures. The committee recommends that the efficiency of EPA's research programs be evaluated according to the same standards used at other agencies. To ensure this, OMB should train and oversee its budget examiners so that the PART questionnaire is implemented consistently and equitably across agencies.
Author | : Brian D. Melzian |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9401702993 |
Download Coastal Monitoring through Partnerships Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the coastal human population increases in the United States, there will likely be increasing environmental and socioeconomic pressures on our coastal and estuarine environments. Monitoring the condition of all our nation's coastal and estuarine ecosystems over the long term is more than any one program can accomplish on its own. Therefore, it is crucial that monitoring programs at all levels (local, state, and federal) cooperate in the collection, sharing, and use of environmental data. This volume is the proceedings of the Coastal Monitoring Through Partnerships symposium that was held in Pensacola, Florida in April of 2001, and was organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), and the Council of State Governments (CSG). It contains papers that describe various multi-disciplinary coastal and estuarine environmental monitoring programs, designed and implemented by using regional and national partnerships with federal and state agencies, academia, Native American tribes, and nongovernmental organizations. In addition, it includes papers on modeling and data management; monitoring and assessment of benthic communities; development of biological indicators and interlaboratory sediment comparisons; microbiological modeling and indicators; and monitoring and assessment of phytoplankton and submerged aquatic vegetation. There are many components involved in determining the overall impacts of anthropogenic stressors on coastal and estuarine waters. It will take strong partnerships like those described in this volume to ensure that we have healthy and sustainable coastal and estuarine environments, now and in the future.
Author | : Jo Anne Tippett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Environmental literature |
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