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Thinking Strategically: The Appropriate Use of Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. This report lays out a framework for creating and implementing metrics for the Climate Change Science Program. A general set of metrics provides a starting point for identifying the most important measures, and the principles provide guidance for refining the metrics and avoiding unintended consequences. Learn More -
Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change offers much-needed guidance to those creating public policy and assists in implementing that policy. The information presented in this book will be invaluable to the research community, especially social scientists studying climate change; practitioners of decision-making assistance, including advocacy organizations, non-profits, and government agencies; and college-level teachers and students. Learn More -
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. To date, decisions related to the management and protection of the nation's people, resources, and infrastructure have been based on records in the recent past, when climate was relatively stable. Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, part of the congressionally requested America's Climate Choices suite of studies, calls for a new paradigm-one that considers a range of possible future climate conditions and impacts that may be well outside the realm of past experience. Learn More -
Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change, part of the congressionally requested America's Climate Choices suite of studies, focuses on the role of the United States in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The book concludes that in order to ensure that all levels of government, the private sector, and millions of households and individuals are contributing to shared national goals, the United States should establish a "budget" that sets a limit on total domestic greenhouse emissions from 2010-2050. Meeting such a budget would require a major departure from business as usual in the way the nation produces and uses energy-and that the nation act now to aggressively deploy all available energy efficiencies and less carbon-intensive technologies and to develop new ones. Learn More -
Advancing the Science of Climate Change
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. Advancing the Science of Climate Change calls for a single federal entity or program to coordinate a national, multidisciplinary research effort aimed at improving both understanding and responses to climate change. Seven cross-cutting research themes are identified to support this scientific enterprise. In addition, leaders of federal climate research should redouble efforts to deploy a comprehensive climate observing system, improve climate models and other analytical tools, invest in human capital, and improve linkages between research and decisions by forming partnerships with action-oriented programs. Learn More -
Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate examines the growing need for climate-related decision support--that is, organized efforts to produce, disseminate, and facilitate the use of data and information in order to improve the quality and efficacy of climate-related decisions. Drawing on evidence from past efforts to organize science for improved decision making, it develops guidance for government agencies and other institutions that will provide or use information for coping with climate change. This volume provides critical analysis of interest to agencies at every level, as well as private organizations that will have to cope with the world's changing climate. Learn More -
Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. This book proposes six priorities for restructuring the United States' climate change research program to develop a more robust knowledge base and support informed responses. Learn More -
Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program is the first review of the CCSP's progress since the program was established in 2002. It lays out a method for evaluating the CCSP, and uses that method to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the entire program and to identify areas where progress has not met expectations. The committee found that the program has made good progress in documenting and understanding temperature trends and related environmental changes on a global scale, as well as in understanding the influence of human activities on these observed changes. Learn More -
Analysis of Global Change Assessments: Lessons Learned
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. This report reviews lessons learned from past assessments, which are intended to inform policymakers about the scientific underpinnings of critical environmental issues such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, and ozone depletion. Learn More -
Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
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To download and/or purchase this report, please visit the National Academies Press website. This book concludes that, when done correctly, public participation improves the quality of federal agencies' decisions about the environment. Well-managed public involvement also increases the legitimacy of decisions in the eyes of those affected by them, which makes it more likely that the decisions will be implemented effectively. This book recommends that agencies recognize public participation as valuable to their objectives, not just as a formality required by the law. It details principles and approaches agencies can use to successfully involve the public. Learn More
