Improving the Innovation Capability of Environmental Science and Technology to Support Environmental Management and Decision-Making: Demands, Challenges and Countermeasures
China's environmental protection is facing profound changes in the new era. To meet the people's ever-growing needs for high-quality ecology has become the principal contradiction of environmental protection in the new era. In order to meet the new demands of ecological civilization and environmental protection proposed at the 19th CPC National Congress, and in accordance with the principle of'environmental science and technology serves the ordinary people', the future environmental situation and demands for innovation were analyzed. Then four key tasks to promote the development of environmental science and technology (S & T) innovation centering on the aim of green development and environment quality improvement were proposed,including completely improving the capability and level to provide S & T service for the green development of national economy,making efforts on dealing with outstanding environmental issues for continuous improvement of environmental quality,strengthening ecosystem protection to promote the harmony of human and nature, and promoting the system and mechanism innovation of environmental S & T to support the environmental management and decision-making. Finally,five suggestions to improve the system and mechanism of environmental S & T innovation were proposed: (1) to improve the management of platform construction,internationalization,industrialization,standardization and information to accelerate the construction of modern environmental science research institutes system;(2) to reinforce the basement of scientific innovation and improve the S&T innovation chains;(3) to improve the support toward decision-making and to re-connect scientific research activities and management requirements;(4) to organize the environmental research institutes all over the country for them to take part in major and urgent research projects;and (5) to improve human resource and to fully stipulate the innovative potential of the researchers.
environmental qualityscientific and technological innovationmanagement and decision-makingreform of scientific research system