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Science Policy Reviews, Volume 5 Number 2. INSTITUTION Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, Ohio DOCUMENT RESUME ED 067 229 SE 014 421 AUTHOR Simmons, Eugene M., Ed. TITLE Science Policy Reviews, Volume 5 Number 2. INSTITUTION Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, Ohio. PUB DATE 72 NOTE 112p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$6.58 DESCRIPTORS *Annotated Bibliographies; Environment; Literature Reviews; *Policy Formation; Pollution; Resource Materials; *Sciences; *Technology; World Affairs ABSTRACT In addition to annotated bibliographic references to 489 current United States and foreign publications on science (including technology and engineering) policy, four articles are included in this issue of this quarterly publication. In the first article, a former President of the National Academy of Sciences makes some observations and predictions about changes in public attitudes and their consequences; Battelle's president presents an exposition of the role of engineering in ". rectifying the deteriorating international economic position of the U. S." in the second article. The third discusses factors governing productivity - -"its role as a 'quality of life' determinant; and in the last article, the new Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sees the missions of science and the NSF for the immediate future. (LK) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO. DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIG- INATING IT. POINTS VIEW OR OPIN IONS STATED DO N')T NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDU- CATION POSITION OR POLICY. Science Policy Reviews Volume 5/Number 2 / 1972 it I1'Battelle FILMED FROM I3EST AVAILABLE COPY y.etiPe--4;fi ;''6';4` 1tf) ce i VIS 1 _Art ume-5/Nu ber 2/1972 Editor, ,Clyde R. Tipton, Jr.; Editor, Eugene M. Simons; ViN .:,,,Atifistant:Editor, Dorothy J. Wallace; Circulation, L Judith Sellers ..Sdetice Policy Reviews is a Science Policy Reviews is a current - awareness journal quarterly controlled-circulai.ron cdesighe'd'for peil.orls interested publication of Battelle Memorial In ihel9teractio'its of public Institute The contribution of 0110, with sCithice and tech- information to the Reviews as olOgl'its contents are of two well as suggestions and ' typOi.(1)-feature articles in comments on its con(t and t.,ysp.uf Invited papers, coverage are welcom . Please :commentaries reviews address alt correspondnce to 0ielylitiOiCS,:or reprints of The Managing Editor, citlailYsigniticant articles Science Policy Reviews, tihjiSliiti4iewhere. and Battelle, 'A.,iitiitated.reference to recent 505 King Avenue, ciliOeciorti; news releases, Columbus,, °Mk, 43201. ures, and periodical liter- 01972 by re(iee lIst:on last pages). Battelle MemorialInstit6)te. i Lnergy Nalional Policy 49 tneigy Nuclear 51 Imergy Uncomentional Sources 53 Lnsiionment Itibliography 54 Lns Ointment International Cooperation 54 About This Issue 2 L ns irunment Man Interaction 55 Fnvironment Natural [Wards 57 Attitudes of Society 3 Lnsironment U.N. Conference 57 Lovironmental Agencies 58 With a perception born of years as a scien- nv Momenta! Legislation 58 tist,educator, researcher, and administra- Lnvironmental Research 59 tor,a former President of theNational L uropc 59 I acilities for R8D 61 Academy of Sciences makes some observa- Forecasting 61 tionsand predictions about changesin foreign Altai's 62 France 62 public attitudes and their consequences. GovernmentScience Interaction 63 [kakis and Safety 66 11 Engineering a Sounder Economy liousing and Constiuction 67 Battelle'sPresidentpresents an ingenious India 68 Inloiniation Management 68 exposition of therole of engineering International Science Activities 69 especially innovative engineering thinking Israel Daly. 69 in rectifying the deteriorating international Japan 70 economic position of the U.S. Management ol Science 71 Manpower technical and Scientific '11 A Case for Institutional Change 21 Metrication 74 National Security 74 This discussion of factors governing pro- Netherlands 76 ductivity,itsrole asa"quality-of-life" Ocean- International Activities 76 Ocean Resources 77 determinant,andthe presentstateof Ocean U.S, Activities 77 productivity in the U.S. illustrates the need Philippines 78 foraninstitutionalrenaissancetohelp Policy Making [ladies 78 Pollution Air 79 solve today's problems. Pollution Noise 79 Pollution Ifesticides and Herbicides 80 To Ensure the Health of Science 31 Pollution Problems and Control 80 Here's howthenew Directorofthe Pollution Radiation 82 Pollution Water 83 National Science Foundation sees the mis Population 84 sions of science andthe NSF for the Postal Technology 85 Resource Management 85 immediate future. Science and the Law 85 Science Paley Bibliographies 85 Current Literature 36 Science Policy Studies 86 Alaska Pipeline 36 Scientific Institutions 87 Antarctica 36 Society Science Interactiun 88 Atmospheric Sciences 36 Space Laith Resources Satellites '31 Austria 37 Space International Cooperation 91 Itangladesh 37 Space -Programs and Goals 93 Bin logical Sciences 37 Space Shmile 93 [ludo for Science And technology 38 State and Lucal Science Activities 94 Canada Y.) technological Innosation 94 China 40 Technology Assessment 96 Communications 41 Technology bander 96 Developing Countries 42 I ra nspor tat km 97 Lconomics and Science 1'3 United Kingdom 99 Iducation 44 Urban Problems 100 Lnergy Crisis 46 U.S.S.R. 100 Incigy Unvirunment 47 Waste Management 102 Incigy I ucl Supply 48 West Germany 104 The shipmate mark and name as it appears on the front ether is a registered servitemark or trademark of Handle Memorial Institute. Publishing a current-awareness journal on of economics with science and technology such an all-enveloping subject as science an area touched on only lightly in previous policy is difficult in some respects and easy issues of SPR. in others difficult because the very On a different subject, I remind you that broadness of scope makes it hard to do SPR and its predecessor, Science Policy justice to the overwhelming volume of Bulletin, are available in microfiche form literature, and easy because there's never from Columbus Microfilm Incorporated, a lack of subject matter of wide interest to 3167 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio highlight. 43224, and in microfilm and enlarged re- This issue of SPR illustrates my point very production form from University Micro- well. There are 79 different subject cate- films, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. We gories in the Current Literature section, hope these two sources will be useful to ranging from Alaska Pipeline to West librarians and to many of you who have Germany. Two of the four feature articles requested back issues, which regrettably we deal rather extensively with the interaction are unable to provide. /C. R. Tipton, Jr. 1 2 L-) Science Policy Reviews Two/1972 Attitudes of Society Rockefeller University President Frederick But folly and limited vision, as well as Seitz was the featured speaker at Battelle's accident, play such important roles in hu- Science Policy Colloquium in May. His man affairs that no one should take a par- frank discourse includes thoughtful com- ticular forecast, including my own, too ments on the public's historically ambiva- seriously. For example, would anyone using lent attitude toward pure science and its mathematical analysis at the turn of the current misgivings about the benefits of century have guessed that western Europe technology, the revolutionary boiling up would be playing so much of a secondary and simmering down of the Intellectual role on the world stage as it is now? The community, and the relaxation in moral folly which caused the European nations to standards. encourage the rivalries that led to World War I can scarcely be fed into a computer. Dr. Seitz makes some interesting predic- in dealing with such variables, philosophers tions related to these changes. For ex- and poets would seem to be as effective ample, he expects "substantial reversion to more traditional Imorall values", a power judges of the future as analytical scientists crisis in this decade that will cause a are. "public reappraisal of constraints" on new The Status of Science power plants, and public pressure on pro- fessional communities to tackle the Im- The relationship between science and our mediate problems of society. own society has always been complex In the belief that SPR readers will find never too well understood either by the Dr. Seitz's remarks as thought-provoking public or by the scientific community. The public has tended to be ambivalent in its as the Colloquium attendees did, we appraisal of science, undervaluing it most present his text below. of the time and occasionally overvaluing it. The scientists have alternated between look- REFLECTIONS ON THE RELATION- ing upon themselves as under-appreciated SHIPS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND paupers and rating themselves as enlightened TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY super-beings. Our domestic situation con- by Frederick Seitz trasts to that of Europe where science has had a far more central and prominent posi- Perils of Prediction tion in both the cultural and technological domains and has also been better under- I would like to take this special oppor- stood by both. tunity to express some rather personal views concerning the relationships between Ever since the 13th century, when Europe science and technology and the society in became aware that it might be possible to which we live.In doing this,Ishall empha- extend man's knowledge of the natural size the transitory nature of the present world through systematic measurement, state of affairs and attempt to forecast the science has been a central issue, publicly future, although I have very modest claims discussed and publicly debated. European to being a futurologist.It is popular in scientists have been taken sufficiently these days of Forrester, Meadows, and the seriously as to be occasionally singled out Club of Rome to attempt to use computers for persecution as heretics as well as to forecast the grand sweep of coming honored for imaginative innovations.In events.I have great respect for such contrast, the worst offense our own endeavors as symbolic guides and I en- society has offered to the scientific com- courage careful work on such models as munity is to ignore and possibly ridicule it.
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