ways," contends William C. Clark, a Harvard University government professor who chairs the Heinz Center's ecosystem study.
If anything, governments should simplify redundant federal-state regulatory programs, strengthen environmental research and use new information technologies to collect, process and organize the data they're gathering. They then should publish it so the public can judge which threats are most serious and what responses are working. Elected officials will always make the final calls, but better scientific information is essential to making intelligent environmental policy decisions.
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