Science for Environmental Protection: The Road Ahead

Science for Environmental Protection: The Road Ahead
Committee on Science for EPA's Future; Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council
NAS Press | 2012 | ISBN: 0309264898 9780309264891 | 251 pages | PDF | 5 MB

This issue outlines a framework for building science for environmental protection in the 21st century and identified key areas where enhanced leadership and capacity can strengthen the agency's abilities to address current and emerging environmental challenges as well as take advantage of new tools and technologies to address them.

Tensions inherent to the structure of EPA's work contribute to the current and persistent challenges faced by the agency, and meeting those challenges will require development of leading-edge scientific methods, tools, and technologies, and a more deliberate approach to systems thinking and interdisciplinary science.