A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Draft Strategic Plan (2012) / Chapter Skim
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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. Given the nation's current fiscal challenges, it is ever more important that our global change research enterprise advances as a strategically-driven, coordinated whole, rather than a collection of ad hoc, unconnected efforts at different federal agencies.
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As described in more detail later in this report, the Plan envisions a USGCRP that addresses not only climate change but also other climate-related (and human-caused) global changes.
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And in an era of increasingly constrained budget resources, those questions of how will become paramount. As discussed later in this review, issues of key importance to the Committee 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.
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