Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Decision makers will need new kinds of information and new ways of thinking and learning to function effectively in a changing climate. Many decision makers are experiencing or anticipating a new climate regime and are asking questions about climate change and potential responses to it that federal agencies are unprepared to answer.
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In response to this charge, the Panel on Strategies and Methods for ClimateRelated Decision Support examined basic knowledge of decision making; past experiences in other fields, such as hazard response, public health, and natural resource management; experience with early efforts in the climate arena; and input from a range of decision makers. Our study found that climate change poses challenges not only for the many decision makers it will affect, but also for federal agencies and for the scientific community.
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The federal government should also fund research on decision support efforts that combine deliberation with analysis and that use other appropriate learning models, with the aim of improving decision support for a changing climate. Recommendation 4: Federal agencies and other entities that provide de cision support should monitor changes in science, policy, and climate
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Global Change Research Act (USGCRA) should organize a program of research for informing climate change response as a component of equal importance to the current national program of research on climate change processes.
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Recommendation 8: The federal government should recognize the need for scientists with specialized knowledge in societal issues and the sci ence of decision support in the field of climate change response. There should be expanded federal support to enable students and scientists to build their capacity as researchers and as advisers to decision makers who are dealing with the changing climate.
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The recommended national initiative will require unusually effective collaboration among many federal agencies, since a great variety of agencies -- many more than now participate in the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) -- need decision support, provide information needed for decision support, or serve constituencies that need decision support.
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Yet it is clear that any form of national climate service should implement the principles of effective decision support. Thus, it should develop decision support products by means of communication between information providers and users that is likely to shape research agendas in ways that yield useful and usable research products.
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