A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Draft Strategic Plan (2012) / Chapter Skim
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3 Global Change Versus Climate Change
3 Global Change Versus Climate Change
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. Although the concept of global change is not precisely defined at the edges, and remains a matter of active debate, the GCRA clearly calls for a program that encompasses more than climate change alone.
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On scientific grounds alone, a broadly-focused global change research program that fully meets the mandate of the GCRA is more appropriate than a research program focused more narrowly on climate change alone. For example, the global hydrological cycle is under stress, but at present climate change is arguably not the most important stressor.
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impacts on human populations than climate change. The global implications of these other global change phenomena thus deserve study as part of a comprehensive global change research program.
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An informed analysis of this potential broadening strategy requires more time than this review allows; but we do suggest that the matter deserves further discussion as the Program develops. Finally, as discussed later in this review, the Plan not only proposes expanding its scope from climate change science to "climate and related global changes", but also proposes expanding its scope to increased integration of the social and ecological sciences, increased attention to decision support, and increased attention to matters of education and communication.
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