Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age - Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

This report summarizes a workshop--Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The presentations and discussions summarized here describe the types of scientific information necessary to make informed decisions to eliminate the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) banned under the Stockholm Convention, sources of information; scientifically informed strategies for eliminating POPs, elements of good scientific advice, such as transparency, peer review, and disclosure of conflicts of interest; and information dealing with POPs that decision makers need from the scientific community, including next steps to make such science available and ensure its use on a continuing basis.

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• Authors: Technology Board on Science, Board on Science Technology and Economic, Board on Science Technology and Economic Policy, Committee on Measuring and Sustaining th, Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy, National Academy Of Sciences, National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs
• Assisted by: Dale W Jorgenson (Editor), Dale W. Jorgenson (Editor), Charles W Wessner (Editor), Charles W. Wessner (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2007
• EAN: 9780309102209
• ISBN: 978-0-309-10220-9
• No. of pages: 164
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 224 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches