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Towards sustainable environmental quality: A call to prioritize global research needs
Citation:
Brooks, B., G. Ankley, A. Boxall, AND M. Rudd. Towards sustainable environmental quality: A call to prioritize global research needs. Integrated Assessment and Management. SETAC Press, Pensacola, FL, 9(2):179-180, (2013).
Impact/Purpose:
Identifying, prioritizing, and advancing research priorities are important goals for those engaged in scientific enterprise. Anticipating the greatest scientific needs and challenges presents opportunities to be more agile in response, more efficient in purpose, and more intentional in allocation of effort, particularly when resources are stressed. A reorientation of research in support of the needs of decision-makers and citizens at global, regional, national, and local scales is needed (1). How are such challenges anticipated and research priorities set? Government, industry and academic entities define organizational visions, missions and goals as perfunctory exercises, then respond and re-parameterize their efforts temporally in reaction to citizenry, regulatory expectations and funding availability. However, without dedicated forums to intentionally promote multidisciplinary exchanges across different sectors, consensus for research needs often is not consistent among governmental, industrial and academic sectors.
Description:
Identifying, prioritizing, and advancing research priorities are important goals for those engaged in scientific enterprise. Anticipating the greatest scientific needs and challenges presents opportunities to be more agile in response, more efficient in purpose, and more intentional in allocation of effort, particularly when resources are stressed. A reorientation of research in support of the needs of decision-makers and citizens at global, regional, national, and local scales is needed (1). How are such challenges anticipated and research priorities set? Government, industry and academic entities define organizational visions, missions and goals as perfunctory exercises, then respond and re-parameterize their efforts temporally in reaction to citizenry, regulatory expectations and funding availability. However, without dedicated forums to intentionally promote multidisciplinary exchanges across different sectors, consensus for research needs often is not consistent among governmental, industrial and academic sectors.
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Towards sustainable environmental quality: A call to prioritize global research needs