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      The U.S. Global Change Research Program: An Assessment of the FY 1991 Plans

      Committee on Global Change,National Research Council,Thomas M. Donahue,National Academy of Sciences

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      Toward an Understanding of Global Change: Initial Priorities for U.S. Contributions to the International Geosphere - Biosphere Program

      National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs,Committee on Global Change (U.S. National Committee for the IGBP),National Academy of Sciences

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      Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade

      Committee on Global Change Research,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      How can we understand and rise to the environmental challenges of global change? This book offers a comprehensive overview of global change research, and provides a framework for answering questions…

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      New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures

      Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Examines the potential of tools that emphasize education, information, and voluntary measures on environmental regulation. This book includes contributions that summarize the effectiveness of these tools, individually and with regulatory…

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      Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions

      Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,Board on Environmental Change and Society,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Offers a strategy for combining the efforts of natural and social scientists to understand how our actions influence global change and how global change influences us. This book explores how…

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      Implementing Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan

      Committee to Review the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      The book reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global…

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      The Drama of the Commons

      Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change

      Identifies the major challenges facing various systems of governance for resource management. This book reviews the evidence from several disciplines and many lines of research and presents an assessment.

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      Change and the 2020 Census: Not Whether But How

      Panel to Review the 2010 Census,National Research Council

      Sponsored by the Census Bureau and charged to evaluate the 2010 U.S. census with an eye toward suggesting research and development for the 2020 census, the Panel to Review the…

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      Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making

      Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making,National Research Council

      Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions. This book concludes that public participation improves the quality of federal agencies’ decisions about…

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      Consumption and the Environment: The Human Causes

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      At the request of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Academy’s Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change gathered a number of researchers to help define the problem of…

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      Research and Networks for Decision Support in the NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program

      Panel on Design Issues for the NOAA Sector Applications Research Program,National Research Council

      Presents a definition of decision support that emphasizes communication rather than translation and a strategy by which the small NOAA Sectoral Applications Research program can advance decision support. This book…

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