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Global environmental change : research pathways for the next decade / Committee on Global Change Research Board on Sustainable Development Policy Division.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Global Change Research.
- Series:
- Overview.
- Overview
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global environmental change.
- Climatic changes--Research--United States.
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (81 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. ; [Great Britain] : National Academy Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- OVERVIEW
- Copyright
- Preface
- THE SCIENCE
- THE STRATEGY
- THE IMPLEMENTATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- SUMMARY
- BACKGROUND
- PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENT
- SCIENTIFIC ROOTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE RESEARCH
- SCIENTIFIC ROOTS OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE RESEARCH
- THE ROAD AHEAD
- THE PATHWAYS FRAMEWORK
- REVIEW OF THE USGCRP
- LESSONS LEARNED
- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- RESEARCH IMPERATIVES AND SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS-DRIVERS OF OBSERVATION AND RESEARCH
- CROSSCUTTING THEMES
- A COHERENT OBSERVATIONAL STRATEGY
- TECHNICAL INNOVATION
- DATA SYSTEMS
- MODELS AND LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- APPENDIXES
- APPENDIX A PUBLIC LAW 101-606 [S. 169]
- November 16, 1990 GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH ACT OF 1990
- TITLE 1 UNITED STATES GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM
- TITLE II INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH
- APPENDIX B GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: RESEARCH PATHWAYS FOR THE NEXT DECADE
- APPENDIX C RESEARCH IMPERATIVES AND SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS
- Biology and Biogeochemistry of Ecosystems
- Seasonal to Interannual Climate Change
- Decadal to Century (Dec-Cen) Climate Change
- Chemistry of the Atmosphere
- Paleoclimate
- Human Dimensions of Global Change
- APPENDIX D ACRONYMS.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786610186471
- 9781280186479
- 128018647X
- 9780309562614
- 0309562619
- OCLC:
- 758613149
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