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A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Draft Strategic Plan (2012) / Chapter Skim
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5 Process, Structure, and Implementation Issues
Pages 41-43

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... To be effective, this governance structure needs to be a committed partnership among the participating departments and agencies of the USGCRP, the relevant Administration offices (including, at a minimum the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Domestic Policy Council) , the Global Change Research Sub-Committee representatives, and the USGCRP Office leadership.
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... Setting priorities. The Plan states commitments to many important new research directions – for instance, to improve understanding of how natural and social conditions interact to affect resilience and vulnerability; to develop methods for valuing ecosystem goods and services; to improve characterization of uncertainty in ways that enable decision makers to evaluate options.
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... The USGCRP needs an overall governance structure with responsibility and resources to broaden the Program in the directions outlined in the Plan, including the ability to compel reallocation of funds to serve the Program's overarching and long-term priorities. Without such a governance structure, the likely evolution of the Program will be business as usual: a compilation of program elements that derive from each member agency's individual priorities.
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