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With ever-advancing scientific understanding and technological capabilities, humanity stands on the brink of the potential next stage of evolution: evolution engineered by us. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science offer the possibility to enhance human performance, lengthen life-span and reshape our inherited physical, cognitive and emotional identities. But with this promise come huge risks, complex choices and fundamental ethical questions: about evolution; about what it is to be human; and about control over, and the distribution of benefits from, new t

After a very short history of mining (1964 to 1966), the Mount Washington copper mine has been the major source of acid rock drainage entering the Tsolum River near Courtenay, B.C. since that time. Previous remediation projects have been partially successful at controlling the ARD generation at the site and treating the copper-bearing discharge from the site (Pyrrhotite Creek). The present project is to develop a final closure plan for the mine site. SRK was retained by the Tsolum River Partnership, a coalition of community, industry and government, to develop the closure plan. The preferred option is to place a bituminous liner over the North Pit, improve the diversion works and to treat the drainage from under the cover while groundwater recovers. Phase II of the project, the detailed design of the cover system, drainage and treatment, is ongoing. Detailed engineering plans should be delivered to the Tsolum River Partnership before December 2007. ; Non UBC ; Unreviewed ; Other

General Introduction -- I. Science in the Steady State? -- Section Introduction -- Lessons of History: Successive Challenges to Science Policy -- What is Happening to Science? -- The University System in Transition: Possibilities and Limitations of Universities in the "Steady State" -- Professional Roles in Steady State Science: The Case of Italy -- U.S. Science Policy in the 1990s: New Institutional Arrangements, Procedures, and Legitimations -- II. New Roles, New Linkages -- Section Introduction -- The International Pattern and Determinants of Technological Activities -- Panel: The Role of Industry in Science Policy -- The Second Academic Revolution: The Role of the Research University in Economic Development -- U.S. Policy on Intellectual Property in R&D: Emerging Political and Moral Issues -- Panel: Trans-sectoral and Trans-disciplinary Networking -- Information and Communications Technology and Managing Science -- The Future: Steady State or New Challenges? -- Panel: Global Science Policy -- The International Organization of Scientific Work -- III. Selection and Management of the Research Base -- Section Introduction -- The Politics of Science Policy -- Strategic Policy for Science -- Strategic Processes and S&T Indicators: Towards a Key Role in R&D Management Systems -- Panel: National Experiences in Planning Strategic Research -- Panel: Strategic National Priorities and Internationalization -- Implementation and Evaluation of Science & Technology Priorities and Programs -- Options for the Future of Research Evaluation -- Analyzing Basic Research Goals for the U.S. Congress -- Panel: Peer Review in Evaluation -- IV. The Place of the Individual in the Science System -- Section Introduction -- Individual Autonomy and Autonomy of Science: The Place of the Individual in the Research System -- Research as a Career -- Panel: Educational Foundations for Career Flexibility -- Panel: Organizational Roles and Individual Autonomy -- V. An Exercise in Foresight -- An Exercise in Foresight: The Research System in Transition—to What?.

Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) raises many cultural, ethical, legal, social, and political issues, yet in the growing area of GGR research, humanities and social sciences (HASS) research is often marginalized, constrained and depoliticised. This global dynamic is illustrated by an analysis of the UK GGR research programme. This dynamic matters for the knowledge produced and for its users. Without HASS contributions, too narrow a range of perspectives, futures and issues will be considered, undermining or overpromising the prospects for the responsible development of GGR (and threatening worse side-effects), and limiting our understanding of why and how policy demands GGR solutions in the first place. In response, we present policy principles for bringing HASS fully into GGR research, organized around three themes: (1) HASS-led GGR research, (2) Opening up GGR futures, and (3) The politics of GGR futures.

Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) raises many cultural, ethical, legal, social, and political issues, yet in the growing area of GGR research, humanities and social sciences (HASS) research is often marginalized, constrained and depoliticised. This global dynamic is illustrated by an analysis of the UK GGR research programme. This dynamic matters for the knowledge produced and for its users. Without HASS contributions, too narrow a range of perspectives, futures and issues will be considered, undermining or overpromising the prospects for the responsible development of GGR (and threatening worse side-effects), and limiting our understanding of why and how policy demands GGR solutions in the first place. In response, we present policy principles for bringing HASS fully into GGR research, organized around three themes: (1) HASS-led GGR research, (2) Opening up GGR futures, and (3) The politics of GGR futures.