Linking science more closely to policy-making: Global climate change and the national reorganization of science and technology policy

摘要

This paper examines the national trends behind recent efforts to link science and technology more closely to policy-making. It describes the politics surrounding the establishment of the National Science and Technology Council and its committee on Environment and Natural Resources (of which the global change program is a part). It discusses the evolution of the ''assessments'' function within the climate change program in general, and within the Department of Energy, in particular, and how the Clinton Administration's approach to climate change ''assessments'' function within the climate change program in general, and within the Department of Energy, in particular, and how the Clinton Administration's approach to climate change ''assessments'' differs from that of its predecessor. The paper concludes with a critique both of the national reorganization of science and technology policy and of the assessments component of the climate change program.