NASA and the environment : the case of ozone depletion / by W. Henry Lambright.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Lambright, W. Henry, 1939-

Contributor:

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. History Office

Series:

Monographs in aerospace history ; no. 38.

NASA SP (Series) ; 4538.

Monographs in aerospace history ; no. 38

NASA SP ; 2005-4538

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air--Pollution--Environmental aspects--United States.

Air.

Air--Pollution--Government policy--United States.

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Ozone layer depletion--Environmental aspects--United States.

Ozone layer depletion.

Ozone layer depletion--Government policy--United States.

Air--Pollution--Environmental aspects.

Air--Pollution--Government policy.

Ozone layer depletion--Environmental aspects.

Ozone layer depletion--Government policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 68 pages)

Other Title:

Case of ozone depletion

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, NASA Headquarters, [2005]

Summary:

An important policy stimulus in many respects, ozone depletion spawned the Montreal Protocol of 1987 (the most significant international environmental treaty then in existence). It also was an issue critical to NASA's history that served as a bridge linking NASA's weather and land-resource satellites to NASA's concern for the global changes affecting the home planet. Significantly, as a global environmental problem, ozone depletion underscored the importance of NASA's ability to observe Earth from space. Moreover, the NASA management team's ability to apply large-scale research efforts and mobilize the talents of other agencies and the private sector illuminated its role as a "lead" agency capable of crossing organizational boundaries as well as the science-policy divide

Notes:

"May 2005."

"In tracking NASA's decision-making process, the author has made use of the various books on ozone policy and it should be emphasized this paper's orientation is on ozone policy and the NASA government program, not the history of environmental science"--Page 2

Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-67) and index.

Other Format:

Lambright, W. Henry, 1939- NASA and the environment : the case of ozone depletion

OCLC:

67228776