The Challenge of Collecting and Using Environmental Monitoring Data

摘要: The monitoring of ambient environmental conditions is essential to management and regulation. However, effective subject a range institutional, political, legal constraints, constraints that are product the need for be continuous, long lived, well matched resources being studied. Political pressure or myopia, conflicting agency goals, institutional autonomy, reluctance scientists pursue all may make it difficult effectively undertaken. Even if data gathered, not used in decision making. inevitable residual uncertainty allows stakeholders contest use Structural solutions, e.g., creation agencies conduct separate from regulation prompt making, most promising solutions.