%0 Book %A National Research Council %T Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change %@ 978-0-309-13173-5 %D 2009 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12595/restructuring-federal-climate-research-to-meet-the-challenges-of-climate-change %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12595/restructuring-federal-climate-research-to-meet-the-challenges-of-climate-change %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Environment and Environmental Studies %K Earth Sciences %P 266 %X Climate change is one of the most important global environmental problems facing the world today. Policy decisions are already being made to limit or adapt to climate change and its impacts, but there is a need for greater integration between science and decision making. This book proposes six priorities for restructuring the United States' climate change research program to develop a more robust knowledge base and support informed responses: Reorganize the Program Around Integrated Scientific-Societal Issues Establish a U.S. Climate Observing System Support a New Generation of Coupled Earth System Models Strengthen Research on Adaptation, Mitigation, and Vulnerability Initiate a National Assessment of the Risks and Costs of Climate Change Impacts and Options to Respond Coordinate Federal Efforts to Provide Climate Information, Tools, and Forecasts Routinely to Decision Makers %0 Book %A National Research Council %T A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Draft Strategic Plan %@ 978-0-309-25237-9 %D 2012 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13330/a-review-of-the-us-global-change-research-programs-draft-strategic-plan %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13330/a-review-of-the-us-global-change-research-programs-draft-strategic-plan %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Environment and Environmental Studies %K Earth Sciences %P 72 %X The U.S. government supports a large, diverse suite of activities that can be broadly characterized as "global change research." Such research offers a wide array of benefits to the nation, in terms of protecting public health and safety, enhancing economic strength and competitiveness, and protecting the natural systems upon which life depends. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which coordinates the efforts of numerous agencies and departments across the federal government, was officially established in 1990 through the U.S. Global Change Research Act (GCRA). In the subsequent years, the scope, structure, and priorities of the Program have evolved, (for example, it was referred to as the Climate Change Science Program [CCSP] for the years 2002-2008), but throughout, the Program has played an important role in shaping and coordinating our nation's global change research enterprise. This research enterprise, in turn, has played a crucial role in advancing understanding of our changing global environment and the countless ways in which human society affects and is affected by such changes. In mid-2011, a new NRC Committee to Advise the USGCRP was formed and charged to provide a centralized source of ongoing whole-program advice to the USGCRP. The first major task of this committee was to provide a review of the USGCRP draft Strategic Plan 2012-2021 (referred to herein as "the Plan"), which was made available for public comment on September 30, 2011. A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Strategic Plan addresses an array of suggestions for improving the Plan, ranging from relatively small edits to large questions about the Program's scope, goals, and capacity to meet those goals. The draft Plan proposes a significant broadening of the Program's scope from the form it took as the CCSP. Outlined in this report, issues of key importance are the need to identify initial steps the Program will take to actually achieve the proposed broadening of its scope, to develop critical science capacity that is now lacking, and to link the production of knowledge to its use; and the need to establish an overall governance structure that will allow the Program to move in the planned new directions. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Planning Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan %D 2003 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11565/planning-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11565/planning-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Earth Sciences %P 99 %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Implementing Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan %@ 978-0-309-08865-7 %D 2004 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10635/implementing-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10635/implementing-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Earth Sciences %K Environment and Environmental Studies %P 108 %X The report 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 change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -- the Climate Change Research Initiative -- whose primary goal is to "measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources."