Science, Technology, and the Issues of the Eighties
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Westview Special Studies in Science, Technology, and Public Policy/Society
Science, Technology, and the Issues of the Eighties: Policy Outlook
edited by Albert H. Teich and Ray Thornton for the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Recognizing that science and technology have become increasingly relevant to important public policy issues, Congress has mandated the periodic preparation of a Five Year Outlook for Science and Technology to help U.S. policymakers anticipate and deal with these issues more effectively. This book, the result of a study conducted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the second such Outlook, identifies and explores domestic and international policy concerns in which science and technology are critical factors. The authors interdisciplinary, nontechnical approach provides policymakers, students and others interested in science, technology and public affairs with a timely overview of nine areas that are likely to become the worlds most pressing concerns during the next several years.
Dr. Teich is manager of science policy studies at AAAS and project manager of AAASs Five Year Outlook Project. Prior to joining AAAS, he was associate professor and deputy director of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Public Policy at George Washington University. He is coauthor of Research and Development: AAAS Reports V and VI (1980 and 1981) and editor of Scientists and Public Affairs (1974) and Technology and Mans Future (3rd ed., 1981). Mr. Thornton is president of Arkansas State University. He was chairman of the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy. He served as attorney general of Arkansas and was elected to three consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. While in Congress he was a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and chairman of the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology.
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Five Year Outlook Project
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Honorable Ray Thornton (chairman), President, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
Dr. R. Darryl Banks, Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C.
Dr. William A. Blanpied, Director, Office of Special Projects, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Kenneth E. Boulding, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Dr. Stothe P. Kezios, Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Melvin Kranzberg (ex officio), Callaway Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Patricia McFate, Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Pauline Newman, Director, Patent and Licensing Department, FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mr. Rodney W. Nichols, Executive Vice President, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
Dr. John F. Sherman, Vice President, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Albert H. Teich (project director), Manager, Science Policy Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.
Chairman, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, January 1981-January 1983.
Chairman, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, January 1978-January 1981.
First published 1982 by Westview Press
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Main entry under title:
Science, technology, and the issues of the eighties.
(Westview special studies in science, technology, and public policy/society)
Based on papers presented at two workshops convened by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science Nov. 1113, 1980, in St. Michaels, Md. and Dec. 1012, 1980, in Hilton
Head, S.C.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Applying science and technology to public purposes / Richard A. Rettig-The institutional
climate for innovation in industry / William J. Abernathy and Richard S.
Rosenbloom-Decision making with modern information and communications technology /
Donald J. Hillman-[etc.]
1. Science and state United States Congresses. 2. Technology and state United
States Congresses. I. Teich, Albert H. II. Thornton, Ray, 1928 . III. National
