Order number 940330-160606-96 -001-001 page 32 set 11 with 111 of 111 items enact EDB Item 43 PRIMARY REPORT NUMBER LA--11728-C ANALYTIC TITLE ENGLISH Mission to planet Earth TITLE ENGLISH Proceedings of the conference on technology-based confidence building: Energy and environment ANALYTIC AUTHOR/AFFIL PERSONAL AUTHOR/AFFIL CORPORATE TEXT PAGE RANGE PUB. DATE (YYMMDD) ABSTRACT McLucas, J.L. Allred, J.C.; Eckhardt, R.C.; Nichols, Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA) A.S. [eds.] 266-274 891100 National leaders are taking notice of the importance of the topic, and it is the subject of discussion at meetings of heads of state. Whereas only a few years ago, most people were not concerned about the environment, recent public opinions show that 3/4 of the people in the US regard it as a primary concern that demands more attention than it is getting. Many have gone even farther in their thinking, to the point that they think we are in a serious environmental crisis. It is possible that the air of crisis is doing us a favor. It presents the people of alli the Earth with the threat of a common danger. It is usually easier to elicit people’s cooperation in facing a common danger than it is to get them to cooperate on some worthy but altruistic purpose. Because of the threat, there is a surprising degree of consensus that the problem is real, that we must change not only our ways of behaving but our ways of thinking about our world. There is also a feeling that we used both new policies and new leadership from the top to deal adequately with what faces us. All of this leads me to consider how we can use our space assets to improve our knowledge and equip us to deal with the environmental challenge. Mission to Planet Earth refers to a continuing study of the Earth from space. One of the principal points of this paper is that space is the place to gather most of the data we need to understand the Earth for the first time in all its beauty, glory, and increasingly recognized vulnerability. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT/environmental effects ;USA/resource KEYWORDS management ;DATA ACQUISITION;DATA COMPILATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; ECOLOGY ; GREENHOUSE PROJECT;HUMAN POPULATIONS ;NASA;NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SATELLITES; SOLL CONSERVATION;US DOE;US EPA;US NOAA;USA EDB Item 44 PRIMARY REPORT NUMBER T0034 bb AD-A--214150/5/XAB