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Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience
The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience in the United States. One finding …
Achieving XXcellence in Science
This report is the proceedings of a July 2002 workshop of the Committee on AXXS 2002: A Workshop for Clinical Societies to Enhance Women's Contributions to Science and their …
Developing Norms for the Provision of Biological Laboratories in Low-Resource Contexts
On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, …
Assessment of the SBIR Program
The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies' extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in …
Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation
The massive increase in digital information in the last decade has created new requirements for institutional and technological structures and workforce skills. Preparing the …
Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming
Readily accessible to any interested reader, this volume offers an analysis of the major issues surrounding greenhouse warming and presents the authoring panel's recommendations …
Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Mexico
This report contains a collection of papers presented at a workshop in Merida, Mexico --- Strengthening Science-Based Decision Making: Sustainable Management of Groundwater in …
Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at …
Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications
This report is the proceedings of a 2003 symposium on "e;Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications,"e; which brought together …
Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities
Federal laws, regulations, and executive orders have imposed requirements for federal agencies to move toward the sustainable acquisition of goods and services, including the …
U.S.-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Health (2010-2016)
In 2010, the National Research Council published the report U.S-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2000-2009). The review of the program described in detail the …
Global Environmental Change
How can we understand and rise to the environmental challenges of global change? One clear answer is to understand the science of global change, not solely in terms of the …