Appendix A: Relationship of Agency Missions to IITA
Historical databases of environmental observations and information distributed across the nation at scores of sites can be seamlessly integrated along with other-agency environmental databases into a virtual national database and placed at the fingertips of the researcher, policy maker, lawyer, businessman, educator, or any other user; national policy with regard to sustainable development can be made with the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and best environmental information available, integrated with economic and human-dimension information; the geometrically growing volume of environmental data and information can be effectively and automatically quality- controlled, integrated, synthesized, archived, and retrieved.