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Science 23 July 1971:
Vol. 173. no. 3994, p. 313
DOI: 10.1126/science.173.3994.313
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NSB Promotes Environmental Science

In its third anlnual report to Congress, entitled "Environmental Science: Challenge for the Seventies," the National Science Board urged "A Federal Mechanism . . . to provide for the promotion and support of environmental science as a whole." The Board defined "environmental science" as "the study of all the systems of air, land, water, energy, and life that surround man. It includes all science directed to the system-level of understanding of the environment, drawing especially on such disciplines as meteorology, geophysics, oceanography, and ecology, and utilizing to the fullest the knowledge and techniques developed in such fields as physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and engineering." The following excerpt is from the report's section on "The Basic Issue."

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