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Research Pathways for the Next Decade
This publication is extracted from a much larger report, Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, which addresses the full ...
Summary of a Workshop
The Earth's population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth wi...
The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to unde...
Proceedings of a Workshop
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1990 to "assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respo...
The U.S. government supports a large, diverse suite of activities that can be broadly characterized as "global change research." Such research offers ...
Phase 1 Report on a Near-Term Update
The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1-metric ton in...
Research Directions
There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the global environment. For some observers, "consumption" is at the root of global envir...
Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer lev...
El Nino has been with us for centuries, but now we can forcast it, and thus can prepare far in advance for the extreme climatic events it brings. The ...
Implications for Security Analysis
Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events--slowly ...
Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society
Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for m...
Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Forecasts of snow and ice storms, hurricane...
Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science
Space-based sensors are giving us an ever-closer and more comprehensive look at the earth's surface; they also have the potential to tell us about hum...
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food dome...
The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and nat...
A Consensus Study Report
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The Future of the U.S. Gulf Coast
The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, int...
Summary of Two Workshops
Natural gas in deep shale formations, which can be developed by hydraulic fracturing and associated technologies (often collectively referred to as "f...
This report identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustai...
Everyone-government agencies, private organizations, and individuals-is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to ...
The world is transforming its energy system from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the p...
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State radically changed the physical and socio-economic landscapes of the region. The er...
The Human Dimension
Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes. Translating policies, investments, or built infrastructure-re...
As information technology becomes an integral part of health care, it is important to collect and analyze data in a way that makes the information und...
A Review of the Final U. S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan
Formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research, the Program incorporates and builds upon the Global...
Methods and Preliminary Results
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) coordinates the efforts of 13 federal agencies to understand why climate is changing, to improve predic...
Advancing United States-Mexico Binational Sustainability Partnerships incorporates features of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developm...
The South Asia region presents a confluence of major climate impacts and key security issues. From a weather and climate standpoint, the region experi...
More intense heat waves, extended wildfire seasons and other escalating impacts of climate change have made it more important than ever to fill knowle...
In 2021, the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sponsored a two-year consensus study, Managed Retr...
Recommendations for the U.S. Gulf Coast Region and Beyond
Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually since 2...
Macroeconomic models, essential for decision making and federal budget planning, may not appropriately consider the wide breadth of climate-related im...
Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed generat...
To advance a systems understanding of climate-related security risks in the Central America region, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, a...
Roughly every four years, the U.S. Global Change Research Program produces a congressionally mandated assessment of global change science and the impa...
Strategically moving communities and infrastructure?including homes and businesses?away from environmentally high-risk areas, such as vulnerable coast...