Major Management Challenges and Program Risks
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental policy
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental policy
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 1999
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ISBN : 1428948600
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Page : 71 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2001
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This report addresses the major performance and accountability challenges facing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as it seeks to meet its mission of protecting human health and the environment. It includes a summary of actions that EPA has taken and that are under way to address these challenges. It also outlines further actions that GAO believes are needed. This analysis should help the new Congress and administration carry out their responsibilities and improve government for the benefit of the American people.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental policy
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental policy
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309212553
Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. The environment provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Recognizing the importance of sustainability to its work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to create programs and applications in a variety of areas to better incorporate sustainability into decision-making at the agency. To further strengthen the scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human health and environmental protection, the EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to provide a framework for incorporating sustainability into the EPA's principles and decision-making. This framework, Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, provides recommendations for a sustainability approach that both incorporates and goes beyond an approach based on assessing and managing the risks posed by pollutants that has largely shaped environmental policy since the 1980s. Although risk-based methods have led to many successes and remain important tools, the report concludes that they are not adequate to address many of the complex problems that put current and future generations at risk, such as depletion of natural resources, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Moreover, sophisticated tools are increasingly available to address cross-cutting, complex, and challenging issues that go beyond risk management. The report recommends that EPA formally adopt as its sustainability paradigm the widely used "three pillars" approach, which means considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of an action or decision. Health should be expressly included in the "social" pillar. EPA should also articulate its vision for sustainability and develop a set of sustainability principles that would underlie all agency policies and programs.
Author : David M. Walker
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2000-08
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ISBN : 9780756700782
Provides a list of open recommendations to help solve problems in areas GAO designated as major management challenges in its Jan. 1999 Performance and Accountability Report Series. It focuses on the areas that are most important to solving the problem (generally 10-12 per management challenge), and briefly summarizes the other recommendations. The report addresses the Depts. of Agriculture, Commerce, DoD, Education, Energy, HHS, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and VA; Agency for International Development; EPA; NASA.; Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Social Security Admin.; and USPS. Includes dozens of tables.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Administrative agencies
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Government productivity
ISBN : 1428942262
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : 1428942270