Main TitleNew Roles for Science in Developing Environmental Indicators: A New Jersey Example
Date Created2001-06-01
Subject (Geographic - Hierarchical) Country: United States State: New Jersey County: NA
Subject (Topical)environmental data; environmental monitoring; local government; interdisciplinary; cooperation; environmental indicators; scientists; New Jersey Center for Environmental Indicators; NJCEI
National Environmental Performance Partnership System
NEPPS
DescriptionThis paper discusses the importance of indicators in evaluating economic, social, environmental and other systems and the best ways for scientists to establish and use them. Indicators can be defined as "select sets of data intended to show changes and trends in larger systems over time." Due to the interdisciplinary nature of environmental issues, reliable indicators are particularly important and require the cooperation of scientists, governments and the public. The authors use the New Jersey Center for Environmental Indicators (NJCEI) as an example of this kind of collaboration. The paper contains examples of community, regional and state studies and projects that exemplify the new model of cooperation.
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