Many regulations issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are based on the results of computer models. This book presents guidelines and principles for improving agency models and decision-making…

Factoring health and related costs into decision making is essential to confronting the nation’s health problems and enhancing public well-being. Some policies and programs historically not recognized as relating to…

The electric vehicle offers many promises-increasing U.S. energy security by reducing petroleum dependence, contributing to climate-change initiatives by decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, stimulating long-term economic growth through the development…

Of all the outputs of forests, water may be the most important. Streamflow from forests provides two-thirds of the nation’s clean water supply. This book identifies actions that scientists, forest…

Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas…

Beryllium and its alloys can be found in many important technologies in the defense and aeronautics industries. This book, requested by the US Air Force to help to determine the…

Innovation, the process by which fundamental research becomes a commercial product, is increasingly important in the chemical sciences and is changing the nature of research and development efforts in the…

Presents an assessment of how well NASA’s research portfolio is addressing the recommendations and high priority R&T challenges identified in the Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future…