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Erik Fellenius

Abstract

EUROTRAC-2 Science and Support of Policy Development Opening address by the chairman of the DEC Erik Fellenius Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, S-106 48 Stockholm, Sweden Fundamental scientific research and innovation has indeed been of great importance for the development of the industrial nations. The socio-economic sciences have been of great importance for the development of organisation of the society. Medicine found an important place in the society in order to achieve health and thereby contributing to social welfare. At the very beginning of this development, policy essentially implied creating the opportunities for exploring scientific findings for the benefit of different sectors of the society. There were only rather few cases in which controversies arose in the utilisation of scientific findings. During the last four decades, however, this basically optimistic attitude towar

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