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... Christopher Field, who heads the CCSP Scientific Steering Committee, stated that the CCSP's research is addressing only about a third of the carbon sink in the United States and that the rest must be understood by examining human activities. These activities include land cover transformation, the suppression of fires, a shift from open dumping of waste to landfilling, and changes in agricultural management.
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From page 7...
... Topics mentioned included the driving forces of energy use in developing countries, the sources of"endogenous" technological change, the intended and unintended effects of past policies, and the causes of rapid changes in human activity and lifestyles (e.g., recent worldwide fertility decline; patterns of increasingly consumptive living)
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... Such data are necessary to quantify the trajectory of carbon sources and sinks in terms of social as well as biophysical drivers, to account for their current state, and to project future effects of human activities on the carbon cycle. A good historical record would provide the observational base needed for research on the substantive themes just noted, as well as for other substantive research on human interactions with the carbon cycle.
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  • land management

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  • worldwide fertility
  • scenarios independently
  • process understanding
  • develop emissions
  • economic forces

  • human interactions
  • emissions scenarios
  • provide venues
  • natural science
  • examining human

  • economic conditions
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  • substantive themes
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  • interdisciplinary integration
  • historical sources
  • global changes
  • changing economic
  • recent times


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