Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Our Changing Planet
Author: Vision for the Program and Highlights of the Scientific Strategic
Author: The U S Climate Change Science ProgramPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500481100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In May 2001, the Administration asked the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council (NRC) to provide an updated evaluation of key questions about climate change science. Upon receipt of the NRC's report in June 2001, the President directed the relevant agencies and departments of the federal government to build on the extensive U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to accelerate research on the most important uncertainties in climate science, enhance climate observation systems, and improve information available to decisionmakers. To accom- plish this, the Administration took several steps: The President launched the Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI) in June 2001, with an enhanced focus on the climate effects of aerosols (tiny particles) in the atmosphere, the carbon cycle in the Earth system, climate mod- eling, observations, and development of scien- tific information to support decisionmaking. The President created a new, cabinet-level organization in February 2002, to improve the government-wide management of climate sci- ence and climate-related technology develop- ment. Two collaborative interagency programs were launched in response to the President's direction: the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) and the Climate Change Technology Program In July 2002, a year-long process to prepare a 10-year strategic plan for the CCSP was initiat- ed. This planning process was designed to ensure a comprehensive examination of research and observation needs, transparent review by all the international scientific and stakeholder communities, and establishment of defined goals for the research. This document, together with the companion CCSP scientific strategic plan, represents the culmination of the planning and public review process. The United States has also launched an interna- tional effort to design and implement a com- prehensive, multilaterally sponsored Earth observing system, which will provide critical information to improve climate science and modeling. This system will build directly upon the major advances in observations and data management already achieved by the United States and other nations. A ministerial meeting hosted by the U.S. government in Washington in July 2003 is the first step in a planned 10- year effort to greatly improve the ability to "take the temperature of the Earth." Vision and Goals Research and observations can play unique roles in helping society to deal with key climate change issues. This gives rise to the guiding vision of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development
Author: Vladimir F. KrapivinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540754407
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This book presents a new approach to the study of global environmental changes that have unfavorable implications for people and other living systems. The book benefits from the accumulation of knowledge from different sciences. Basic global problems of the nature-society system dynamics are considered. The book aims to develop a universal information technology to estimate the state of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions.
Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead: Responses to comments
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Strategic Vision for the U.S. Geological Survey in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region, 2001-2010
Author: Science
Author: John Michels (Journalist)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A Strategic Vision for Biological Threat Reduction
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309671825
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to articulate a 5-year strategic vision for international health security programs and provide findings and recommendations on how to optimize the impact of the Department of Defense (DOD) Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) in fulfilling its biosafety and biosecurity mission. Because BTRP is just one of several U.S. government programs conducting international health security engagement, both the strategic vision and the success of the program rely on coordinating actions with the U.S. government as a whole and with its international partners. This report provides several recommendations for optimizing BTRP success in its current mission and the wider-looking strategic vision it proposes.
Russian Meteorology and Hydrology
Author: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2015
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2008
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 2300
Book Description