Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government

1135117(摩西)。科学和技术促进可持续发展计划下的一个特别的NRC委员会将确定和描述在制定决策时不经常考虑的能源、水和健康等领域之间建立可持续发展联系的必要性。前提是，可持续性是一个系统问题，不能通过单独优化其组成部分来实现。这项研究和随后的报告将强调联邦一级机构间合作的优先领域，涉及具体的可持续性挑战和机会，以及跨学科管辖方案的障碍和相关的科学研究差距，因为它们与可持续性的系统方法有关。这项研究将建立在整个科学、技术和政策界现有的和新出现的专业知识的基础上，描述领域交叉但现有机构和学科不交叉的联系。该委员会将召开一系列事实调查会议，委托专家撰写案例研究，审查相关文献，并编写一份总体共识报告。该报告将包括一个决策框架，美国政策制定者和监管机构可以使用该框架来帮助他们审查以可持续发展为导向的计划的后果、权衡、协同效应和运营好处。决策框架将包括可持续发展的社会、经济和环境层面。

1135117 (Moses). An ad hoc NRC committee under the Science and Technology for Sustainability Program will identify and describe the need for sustainability linkages among domains such as energy, water, and health that are not routinely considered in decision making. The premise is that sustainability is a systems problem that cannot be achieved by separately optimizing its pieces. The study and subsequent report will highlight priority areas for interagency cooperation, at the federal level, on specific sustainability challenges and opportunities, as well as impediments to transdisciplinary jurisdictional programs and associated scientific research gaps as they relate to a systems approach to sustainability. The study will build upon existing and emerging expertise throughout the scientific, technological, and policy communities, describing the nexus where domains intersect but existing institutions and disciplines do not. The committee will convene a series of fact finding meetings, commission expert-authored case studies, review the pertinent literature, and author an overall consensus report. The report will include a decision framework that can be used by U.S. policymakers and regulators to help them examine the consequences, tradeoffs, synergies, and operational benefits of sustainability-oriented programs. The decision framework will include social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability.