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Enhancing Participation in the U.S. Global Change Research Program
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The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal departments and agencies1 charged by law (the Global Change Research Act [GCRA] of 1990) to assist the Nation and the world to “understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global environmental change.” As the understanding of global change has evolved over the past decades, and as demand for scientific information on global change has increased from both the public and private spheres, the Program has increasingly focused on use-inspired research that can inform decisions to cope with current global environmental change—in particular to understand climate variability and change, to reduce the magnitude of future changes, and to prepare for changes projected over coming decades. In light of the challenges faced by USGCRP to produce actionable scientific knowledge and better serve the needs of the nation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program has written this report. The goals of the report are to explain why it is necessary to identify potential new partners to participate (or current partners to more fully participate) in USGCRP activities, to explore the current set of USGCRP capabilities in light of this rationale, and to identify examples of gaps and areas of potential adjustments (a more detailed Statement of Task for this report can be found in Appendix A)
978-0-309-38026-3
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Social Science
English
2016
1-65
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