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      Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade

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

      This publication is extracted from a much larger report, Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, which addresses the full range of the scientific issues concerning global environmental…

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      People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science

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

      Examines the possibilities for using remote sensing technology to improve understanding of social processes and human-environment interactions. This book discusses what is involved in establishing effective collaborative efforts between scientists…

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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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      Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle: Summary of a Workshop

      Paul C. Stern,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

      The USGCRP’s Carbon Cycle Working Group asked the National Research Council’s Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change to hold a workshop on Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle…

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      Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate

      Panel on Strategies and Methods for Climate-Related Decision Support,National Research Council

      Everyone–government agencies, private organizations, and individuals–is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines based on past climatic averages. State and local…

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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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      New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment: Summary of a Workshop

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      The effects of climate change will touch every corner of the world’s economies and societies. This book summarizes a National Research Council workshop at which presentations and discussion identified specific…

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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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      Facilitating Climate Change Responses: A Report of Two Workshops on Insights from the Social and Behavioral Sciences

      Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences,National Research Council

      With Collateral Observations And Remarks On Agricultural Cattle, Plants, Implements, Etc.

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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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      Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities

      Panel on Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities for Environmental Decision Making,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,National Research Council

      Recommends research efforts involving the non-economic social and behavioural sciences that could contribute to improved decisions affecting environmental quality. This book offers a strategy for making environmental research more decision…

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      Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social-Spatial Data

      Panel on Confidentiality Issues Arising from the Integration of Remotely Sensed and Self-Identifying Data,National Research Council

      Aims to find that technical approaches for making data available while limiting risk have potential, but none is adequate on its own or in combination. This book offers recommendations for…

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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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      Review of CCSP Draft Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.3: Decision-Support Experiments and Evaluations Using Seasonal to Interannual Forecasts and Observational Data

      Panel to Review CCSP Draft Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.3,National Research Council

      Offers a review for a document being produced for the CCSP. This study found the draft to be inconsistent with respect to whether or not it accepted two assumptions: that…

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      Monitoring Climate Change Impacts: Metrics at the Intersection of the Human and Earth Systems

      Committee on Indicators for Understanding Global Climate Change,National Research Council

      The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this century, increasing the demand…

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