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Linking science more closely to policy-making: Global climate change and the national reorganization of science and technology policy

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OSTI ID:182877
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Center for National Security Studies
This paper examines the national trends behind recent efforts to link science and technology more closely to policy-making. It describes the politics surrounding the establishment of the National Science and Technology Council and its Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (of which the global change program is a part). It discusses the evolution of the ``assessments`` function within the climate change program in general, and within the Department of Energy in particular, and how the Clinton Administration`s approach to climate change ``assessments`` differs from that of its predecessor. The paper concludes with a critique both of the national reorganization of science and technology policy and of the assessments component of the climate change program.
OSTI ID:
182877
Report Number(s):
CONF-940426--; ISBN 0-923204-11-3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English