Green Compass: Institutional Options for Developing a National System of Environmental Indicators.

摘要

In order to help meet environmental challenges in the decades ahead, the nation needs a system to identify, produce, and track environmental indicators that are reliable, relevant, and trusted. Leaders of the five federal agencies responsible for environmental protection and natural resources asked the National Academy of Public Administration (National Academy) to help design the organizational and institutional arrangements for such a system. The Academy Panel appointed to provide this assistance worked closely with a federal interagency team to identify and evaluate institutional options. The Panel believes this Administration has an important opportunity to advance development of a national system of environmental indicators through the remainder of its term. To capitalize on this opportunity, the Panel recommends following the mantra, Think big, start small and ramp up fast.