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Closing the Environmental Data Gap: Information Limitations Are Severely Constraining Our Ability to Identify and Understand Emerging Environmental Problems, Devise Interventions to Address Them, And Evaluate Whether Our Responses Work.

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Title: Closing the Environmental Data Gap: Information Limitations Are Severely Constraining Our Ability to Identify and Understand Emerging Environmental Problems, Devise Interventions to Address Them, And Evaluate Whether Our Responses Work.
Author : Issues in Science and Technology
Release Date : January 22, 2009
Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 236 KB

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The compelling evidence that the global climate is changing significantly and will continue to change for the foreseeable future means that we can expect to see similarly significant changes in a wide variety of other environmental conditions such as air and water quality; regional water supply; the health and distribution of plant and animal species; and land-use patterns for food, fiber, and energy production. Unfortunately, we are not adequately monitoring trends in many of these areas and therefore do not have the data necessary to identify emerging problems or to evaluate our efforts to respond. As threats to human health, food production, environmental quality, and ecological well-being emerge, the nation's leaders will be handicapped by major blind spots in their efforts to design effective policies. In a world in which global environmental stressors are increasingly interactive and human actions are having a more powerful effect, the need for detailed, reliable, and timely information is essential. Yet environmental monitoring continues to be undervalued as an investment in environmental protection. We tolerated inadequate data in the past, when problems were relatively simple and geographically limited, such as air or water pollution from a single plant. But it is unacceptable today, as we try to grapple with far more extensive changes caused by a changing climate.