U.S. National Committee for SCOPE

该奖项支持美国国家科学院的管理，通过美国国家科学委员会的范围，美国参与科学委员会的问题在环境（SCOPE），一个委员会的国际科学联合会（ICSU）的理事会。该方案的目标如下：（1）增进关于（a）人类对其环境的影响和（B）环境变化对人类及其健康和福利的影响的知识，特别是那些全球性的或几个国家共有的影响和效应;（2）作为科学家理事会，就环境问题向各国政府和政府间机构提供咨询意见。该奖项为美国科学家提供服务美国国家委员会的SCOPE，以及NAS的支持人员，继续参与SCOPE目前关注的五个广泛的国际问题：可持续性，地球化学循环，全球变化，生态系统和生物多样性，以及健康和生态毒理学。 美国国家委员会在未来几年的一个主要推动力是将环境问题的自然科学和社会科学部分联系起来。 ¤Í

U.S. National Committee on SCOPE This award supports the National Academy of Sciences' management , through the U.S. National Committee for SCOPE, of U.S. participation in the Scientific Committee on Problems in the Environment (SCOPE), a committee of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). SCOPE has the following objectives: (1) to advance knowledge of (a) the influence of humans on their environment and (b) the effects of environmental changes upon people, their health, and their welfare, particularly those influences and effects that are either global or are shared by several nations; and (2) to serve as a council of scientists acting as a source of advice to governments and intergovernmental bodies on issues concerning the environment. This award provides for the U.S. scientists who serve on the U.S. National Committee for SCOPE, and supporting staff at NAS, to continue their involvement in the five broad international issues on which SCOPE currently focuses are: sustainability, biogeochemical cycles, global change, ecosystems and biodiversity, and health and ecotoxicology. A major thrust for the U.S. National Committee for the next several years is the linking of natural and social science components of environmental problems. ¤Í