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"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 understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change. As the understanding of global change has evolved over the past decades and as demand for scientific information on global change has increased, the USGCRP has increasingly focused on research that can inform decisions to cope with current climate variability and change, to reduce the magnitude of future changes, and to prepare for changes projected over coming decades. Overall, the current breadth and depth of research in these agencies is insufficient to meet the country's needs, particularly to support decision makers. This report provides a rationale for evaluating current program membership and capabilities and identifying potential new agencies and departments in the hopes that these changes will enable the program to more effectively inform the public and prepare for the future. It also offers actionable recommendations for adjustments to the methods and procedures that will allow the program to better meet its stated goals"--

Global environmental change --- Climatic changes --- Evaluation. --- Research --- U.S. Global Change Research Program.

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Geography --- Geography. --- Geografie --- Fysische geografie --- Het Gekoppelde Systeem "Mens-Fysisch Milieu" --- (geofactoren, ecosysteemdiensten, menselijk impact op het fysisch milieu, landdegradatie, desertificatie, global change) --- Sociale geografie --- Algemene Werken. --- (geofactoren, ecosysteemdiensten, menselijk impact op het fysisch milieu, landdegradatie, desertificatie, global change).

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Human activity is undeniably affecting the rates of change of many parts of the global system. How this global change develops into the future is vitally important, but modelling these changes requires a complex, integrated assessment of a wide range of disciplines in science and social science. This book describes the structure, assumptions, philosophy and results of an advanced global integrated assessment model: TARGETS. For a number of future directions selected on the basis of divergent cultural perspectives, the model charts global implications in terms of population and health, energy, land- and water-use and biogeochemical cycles. This integrated assessment approach has led to innovative fresh insights into global change. The book will help policymakers formulate the strategies required for a sustainable global future. It will be of interest to a broad audience, from researchers and modellers of global change in science and social science, to policy analysts, decision makers and economists, and students of all aspects of global change.

Global environmental change. --- Environmental Sciences --- Atmospheric Science --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Climatic changes

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Concern about future supplies of fresh water to society, to meet the full range of human needs, now comes very high on the priority list of global societal issues. An overarching issue, which this book addresses, is whether global climate change is a dominant driver of change in the structure and function of all natural water-based ecosystems, or whether direct human population growth and accelerated consumption are playing an equal or greater role. This book divides the whole aquatic realm into 21 ecosystems, from those on land (both saline and fresh water) to those of the open and deep oceans. It draws on the understanding of leading ecologists to summarize the state and likely condition by the year 2025 of each of the ecosystems. Written for academic researchers and environmental professionals, the aim is to put the climate change debate into a broader context as a basis for conservation science and planning.

Aquatic ecology. --- Global environmental change. --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Aquatic biology

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Climatic changes --- Global warming --- Government policy --- Geodynamics --- Research --- Earth --- Dynamic geology --- Tectonophysics --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Environmental aspects --- Geophysics --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- United States --- Congresses --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- U.S. Global Change Research Program --- Evaluation. --- Global environmental change --- United States Global Change Research Program --- United States. --- USGCRP --- U.S.G.C.R.P. --- National Global Change Research Program (U.S.) --- US Global Change Research Program --- Climate Change Science Program (U.S.) --- Earth (Planet)