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Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
This report summarizes a workshop --- Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in …
Permanent Supportive Housing
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, …
Pathways to Urban Sustainability
Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the worlds population lives in urban areas, with the U.S. percentage at 80 percent. …
Sustainability Concepts in Decision-Making
In its current strategic plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes a cross-agency strategy to advance sustainable environmental outcomes and optimize economic …
Agricultural Water Management
This report contains a collection of papers from a workshop---Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making for Sustainable Management of Scarce Water Resources for Agricultural …
Sustainability for the Nation
A "e;sustainable society,"e; according to one definition, "e;is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough …
Sustainability and the U.S. EPA
Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the …
Pathways to Urban Sustainability
Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the worlds population lives in urban areas, with the U.S. percentage at 80 percent. …
Pathways to Urban Sustainability
The workshop was convened to explore the region's approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new policies and programs might be …
Transitioning Toward Sustainability
In 1999 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark report, Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability, which attempted to …
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships
Sustainable development--meeting human needs while nurturing and restoring the planet's life support systems--requires a continuous process of scientific innovation, new knowledge …
Pathways to Urban Sustainability
Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Perspective from Portland and the Pacific Northwest is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council's Science and …