This is a selected list of 210 documents on the environment, infrastructure, architecture and urbanism taken from the 800 publications of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) from 1972-1996, archived at Princeton University. Links to that site are provided for downloading the documents in PDF format.
The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment closed on September 29, 1995. During its 23-year history, OTA provided Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century. It was a leader in practicing and encouraging delivery of public services in innovative and inexpensive ways, including distribution of government documents through electronic publishing.
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The
Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America (September 1995)
Reducing
Earthquake Losses (September 1995)
State
of the States on Brownfields: Programs for Cleanup and Reuse of Contaminated
Sites (June 1995)
Electronic
Surveillance in a Digital Age (July 1995)
Environmental
Technology: Analysis of Selected Federal R&D Programs (July 1995)
Telecommunications
Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and Challenges (August
1995)
Assessing
the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Selected Case Studies (September
1995)
Cleaning
Up Contaminated Wood-Treating Sites (September 1995)
Current
Status of Federal Involvement in U.S. Aquaculture (September 1995)
Environmental
Policy Tools: A User's Guide (September 1995)
Gauging
Control Technology and Regulatory Impacts in Occupational Safety and Health:
An Appraisal of OSHA's Analytic Approach (September 1995)
Global
Communications: Opportunities for Trade and Aid (September 1995)
Innovation
and Commercialization of Emerging Technologies (September 1995)
Issue
Update on Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments (September
1995)
Nuclear
Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts From
Soviet Nuclear Contamination (September 1995)
Renewing
Our Energy Future (September 1995)
Selected
Technology Issues in U.S. Aquaculture (September 1995)
Wireless
Technologies and the National Information Infrastructure (September
1995)
Industry,
Technology, and the Environment: Competitive Challenges and Business
Opportunities (January 1994)
An
Alaskan Challenge: Native Village Sanitation (May 1994)
Climate
Treaties and Models: Issues in the International Management of Climate Change
(June 1994)
Power
Sources for Remote Arctic Applications (June 1994)
Fueling
Reform: Energy Technologies for the Former East Bloc (July 1994)
Saving
Energy in U.S. Transportation (July 1994)
Assessing
the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Technologies, Processes, and
Practices (September 1994)
Civilian
Satellite Remote Sensing: A Strategic Approach (September 1994)
Information
Security and Privacy in Network Environments (September 1994)
Perspectives
on the Role of Science and Technology in Sustainable Development (September
1994)
Remotely
Sensed Data: Technology, Management and Markets (September 1994)
Studies
of the Environmental Costs of Electricity (September 1994)
Virtual
Reality and Technologies for Combat Simulation (September 1994)
Hazards
Ahead: Managing Cleanup Worker Health and Safety at the Nuclear Weapons Complex
(February 1993)
Proceedings:
Technology and Governance in the 1990s. Papers Presented at the OTA 20th
Anniversary Forum on Technology and Governance in the 1990s (April
1993)
Data
Format Standards for Civilian Remote Sensing Satellites (May 1993)
Defense
Conversion: Redirecting R&D (May 1993)
Energy
Efficiency Technologies for Central and Eastern Europe (May 1993)
Advanced
Network Technology (June 1993)
Adult
Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime (July 1993)
The
Future of Remote Sensing From Space: Civilian Satellite Systems and Applications
(July 1993)
Accessibility
and Integrity of Networked Information Collections (August 1993)
Development
Assistance, Export Promotion, and Environmental Technology (August
1993)
Industrial
Energy Efficiency (August 1993)
Proliferation
of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks (August 1993)
U.S.
Telecommunications Services in European Markets (August 1993)
Dismantling
the Bomb and Managing the Nuclear Materials (September 1993)
Energy
Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Utilities (September
1993)
Making
Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services (September
1993)
Potential
Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crop Production (September 1993)
Protecting
Privacy in Computerized Medical Information (September 1993)
Preparing
for an Uncertain Climate-Vol. I (October 1993)
Preparing
for an Uncertain Climate-Vol. II (October 1993)
Global
Change Research and NASA's Earth Observing System (November 1993)
Technologies
Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction (December 1993)
Alaskan
Water for California?: The Subsea Pipeline Option (January 1992)
Technology
Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (January 1992)
After
the Cold War: Living With Lower Defense Spending (February 1992)
Forest
Service Planning: Accommodating Uses, Producing Outputs, and Sustaining
Ecosystems (February 1992)
Managing
Industrial Solid Wastes From Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas Production,
and Utility Coal Combustion (March 1992)
Fueling
Development: Energy Technologies for Developing Countries (April
1992)
Building
Energy Efficiency (May 1992)
Combined
Summaries: Technologies To Sustain Tropical Forest Resources and Biological
Diversity (May 1992)
Finding
a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property and the Challenge of
Technological Change (May 1992)
Trade
and Environment: Conflicts and Opportunities (May 1992)
Building
Future Security: Strategies for Restructuring the Defense Technology and
Industrial Base (June 1992)
Remotely
Sensed Data From Space: Distribution, Pricing, and Applications (July
1992)
Retiring
Old Cars: Programs To Save Gasoline and Reduce Emissions (July 1992)
Green
Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment (September
1992)
Science
and Technology Issues in Coastal Ecotourism (October 1992)
Energy
in Developing Countries (January 1991)
Changing
by Degrees: Steps To Reduce Greenhouse Gases (February 1991)
Complex
Cleanup: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production (February
1991)
Delivering
the Goods: Public Works Technologies, Management, and Financing (April
1991)
Bioremediation
for Marine Oil Spills (May 1991)
Energy
Efficiency in the Federal Government: Government by Good Example? (May
1991)
Global
Arms Trade: Commerce in Advanced Military Technology and Weapons (June
1991)
Energy
Technology Choices: Shaping Our Future (July 1991)
Technology
Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (July 1991)
New
Opportunities for U.S. Universities in Development Assistance: Agriculture,
Natural Resources, and Environment (September 1991)
Biotechnology
in a Global Economy (October 1991)
Improving
Automobile Fuel Economy: New Standards, New Approaches (October 1991)
Miniaturization
Technologies (November 1991)
Critical
Connections: Communication for the Future (February 1990)
Agricultural
Research and Technology Transfer Policies for the 1990s (March 1990)
Coping
With an Oiled Sea (March 1990)
Rebuilding
the Foundations: A Special Report on State and Local Public Works Financing
and Management (March 1990)
Energy
Use and the U.S. Economy (June 1990)
Physical
Vulnerability of Electric Systems to Natural Disasters and Sabotage (June
1990)
Replacing
Gasoline: Alternative Fuels for Light-Duty Vehicles (September 1990)
Orbiting
Debris: A Space Environmental Problem (October 1990)
Beneath
the Bottom Line: Agricultural Approaches To Reduce Agrichemical Contamination
of Groundwater (November 1990)
Oil
Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the
Alaskan Oil Context (February 1989)
Biological
Effects of Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields (May 1989)
Electric
Power Wheeling and Dealing: Technological Considerations for Increasing
Competition (May 1989)
Catching
Our Breath: Next Steps for Reducing Urban Ozone (July 1989)
Advanced
Vehicle/Highway Systems and Urban Traffic Problems (September 1989)
Facing
America's Trash: What Next for Municipal Solid Waste? (October 1989)
Urban
Ozone and the Clean Air Act: Problems and Proposals for Change (April
1988)
Grassroots
Development: The African Development Foundation (June 1988)
Power
On! New Tools for Teaching and Learning (September 1988)
Informing
the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age (October
1988)
Issues
in Medical Waste Management (October 1988)
Pesticide
Residues in Food: Technologies for Detection (October 1988)
Technologies
To Maintain Biological Diversity (March 1987)
Commercial
Newsgathering From Space (May 1987)
Construction
and Materials Research and Development for the Nation's Public Works (June
1987)
From
Pollution to Prevention: A Progress Report on Waste Reduction (June
1987)
International
Competition in Services: Banking, Building, Software, Know-How... (July
1987)
Technologies
for the Preservation of Prehistoric and Historic Landscapes (July
1987)
The
Electronic Supervisor: New Technology, New Tensions (September 1987)
Science,
Technology, and the Constitution (September 1987)
Technologies
for Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Preservation (September 1987)
Defending
Secrets, Sharing Data: New Locks and Keys for Electronic Information (October
1987)
Identifying
and Regulating Carcinogens (November 1987)
Federal
Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional
Oversight (February 1986)
Grassroots
Conservation of Biological Diversity in the United States (February
1986)
Marine
Applications for Fuel Cell Technology (February 1986)
Technology,
Public Policy, and the Changing Structure of American Agriculture (March
1986)
Ocean
Incineration: Its Role in Managing Hazardous Waste (August 1986)
Serious
Reduction of Hazardous Waste: for Pollution Prevention and Industrial Efficiency
(September 1986)
Technologies
for Prehistoric and Historic Preservation (September 1986)
Technology,
Trade, and the U.S. Residential Construction Industry (September
1986)
U.S.
Natural Gas Availability: Gas Supply Through the Year 2000 (February
1985)
Managing
the Nation's Commercial High-Level Radioactive Waste (March 1985)
Technology,
Public Policy, and the Changing Structure of American Agriculture: A Special
Report for the 1985 Farm Bill (March 1985)
Preventing
Illness and Injury in the Workplace (April 1985)
Oil
and Gas Technologies for the Arctic and Deepwater (May 1985)
Technologies
To Benefit Agriculture and Wildlife (May 1985)
New
Electric Power Technologies: Problems and Prospects for the 1990s (July
1985)
Electronic
Surveillance and Civil Liberties (October 1985)
Automation
of America's Offices, 1985-2000 (December 1985)
Reproductive
Health Hazards in the Workplace (December 1985)
Remote
Sensing and the Private Sector: Issues for Discussion (March 1984)
Technologies
To Sustain Forest Resources (March 1984)
Wetlands:
Their Use and Regulation (March 1984)
Computerized
Manufacturing Automation: Employment, Education, and the Workplace (April
1984)
Technology,
Renewable Resources, and American Crafts (April 1984)
Acid
Rain and Transported Air Pollutants: Implications for Public Policy (May
1984)
Environmental
Protection in the Federal Coal Leasing Program (May 1984)
Technology,
Innovation, and Regional Economic Development (July 1984)
Airport
System Development (August 1984)
Technology
and the Future of the U.S. Construction Industry (August 1984)
Protecting
the Nation's Groundwater from Contamination-Vol. I (October 1984)
Protecting
the Nation's Groundwater from Contamination-Vol. II (October 1984)
Civilian
Space Stations and the U.S. Future in Space (November 1984)
Wood
Use: U.S. Competitiveness and Technology-Vol. II (November 1984)
Automation
and the Workplace: Selected Labor, Education, and Training Issues (March
1983)
Technologies
and Management Strategies for Hazardous Waste Control (March 1983)
Sustaining
Tropical Forest Resources: Reforestation of Degraded Lands (May 1983)
Sustaining
Tropical Forest Resources: U.S. and International Institutions (May
1983)
Water-Related
Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid/Semiarid Lands: Selected
Foreign Experience (May 1983)
Habitability
of the Love Canal Area: An Analysis of the Technical Basis for the Decision
on the Habitability of the Emergency Declaration Area (June 1983)
Industrial
Energy Use (June 1983)
Wood
Use: U.S. Competitiveness and Technology-Vol. I (August 1983)
Water-Related
Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in U.S. Arid/Semiarid Lands (October
1983)
U.S.
Passenger Rail Technologies (December 1983)
Energy
Efficiency of Buildings in Cities (March 1982)
Synthetic
Fuels for Transportation: The Future Potential of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
(March 1982)
Global
Models, World Futures, and Public Policy: A Critique (April 1982)
Impacts
of Technology on U.S. Cropland and Rangeland Productivity (August
1982)
Increased
Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Synthetic Fuels: Alternatives for Reducing
Oil Imports (September 1982)
Informational
Technology and Its Impact on American Education (November 1982)
Environmental
Issues of Synthetic Transportation Fuels From Coal (December 1982)
Assessment
of Technologies for Determining Cancer Risks From the Environment (June
1981)
Technology
and Oceanography: An Assessment of Federal Technologies for Oceanographic
Research and Monitoring (June 1981)
Solar
Power Satellites (August 1981)
Computer-Based
National Information Systems: Technology and Public Policy Issues (September
1981)
Nonnuclear
Industrial Hazardous Waste: Classifying for Hazard Management (November
1981)
Technology
and Soviet Energy Availability (November 1981)
Criteria
for Evaluating the Implementation Plan Required By the Earthquake Hazards
Reduction Act of 1977 (January 1980)
Impact
of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology (January 1980)
U.S.
Disaster Assistance to Developing Countries: Lessons Applicable to U.S. Domestic
Disaster Programs (January 1980)
Issues
and Options in Flood Hazards Management (February 1980)
Alternative
Energy Futures: Part I-The Future of Liquefied Natural Gas Imports (March
1980)
Recent
Developments in Ocean Thermal Energy (April 1980)
Energy
From Biological Processes (July 1980)
Energy
from Biological Processes: Volume II-Technical and Environmental Analyses
(September 1980)
Analysis
of Laws Governing Access Across Federal Lands: Options for Access in Alaska
(February 1979)
Technology
Assessment of Changes in the Future Use and Characteristics of the Automobile
Transportation System-Volume II: Technical Report (February 1979)
Technology
Assessment of Changes in the Future Use and Characteristics of the Automobile
Transportation System-Volume I: Summary and Findings (February 1979)
The
Effects of Nuclear War (May 1979)
Materials
and Energy From Municipal Waste (July 1979)
Residential
Energy Conservation (July 1979)
Technology
Assessment of Changes in the Future Use and Characteristics of the Automobile
Transportation System-Volume III: Public Participation (October 1979)
Environmental
Contaminants in Food (December 1979)
Renewable
Ocean Energy Sources: Part I-Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (May
1978)
Application
of Solar Technology to Today's Energy Needs-Vol. I (June 1978)
Application
of Solar Technology to Today's Energy Needs-Vol. II (September 1978)
Organizing
and Financing Basic Research To Increase Food Production (June 1977)
Analysis
of the Proposed National Energy Plan (August 1977)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 10-Washington, D.C. Case Study
(February 1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 11-Technical Report (February
1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 12-Bibliography (February
1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 2-Atlanta Case Study (February
1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 3-Boston Case Study (February
1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 4-Chicago Case Study (February
1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 5-Denver Case Study (February
1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 6-Los Angeles Case Study (February
1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 7-Minneapolis-St. Paul Case
Study (February 1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 8-San Francisco Case Study
(February 1976)
Assessment
of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 9-Seattle Case Study (February
1976)
Food
Information Systems (February 1976)
Food
Information Systems: Summary and Analysis (August 1976)
Coastal
Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems,
Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and
Delaware (November 1976)
Automated
Guideway Transit: An Assessment of PRT and Other New Systems (June
1975)
Energy,
the Economy, and Mass Transit (October 1975)