China and Global Change Opportunities for Collaboration (1992) / Chapter Skim
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In this light, the report has emphasized opportunities for global change science for the Chinese themselves, for potential collaboration with the U.S. scientific community, and for the integration of Chinese research into major international global change research programs.
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Moreover, these scientists are pursuing this research with energy, commitment, and creativity. It is important to note that many of the problems Chinese scientists face in developing a global change research program are similar to those faced by scientists in the United States, including resistance from institutions organized to address traditionally well-defined and more disciplinary problems, lack of appropriately cross-trained scientists, and the difficulties of developing funding for new programs.
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS It is important to emphasize that the panel did not set out to provide an exhaustive investigation into all aspects of science and policies relevant to global change. Rather, by using Chinese national committees to indicate the organization of global change research, the panel provided an overview of activities relevant to the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP)
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· Increased funding through NSFC would expand opportunities for interdisciplinary and collaborative global change research. · Research on surface and radiative fluxes in agriculture and observational programs in hydrology are relevant to global change research programs.
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government or the organizing units of the international research programs should address China's role in their respective global change research programs. Rather, the panel viewed its charge mainly as an exercise in organizing information about Chinese global change research in order to increase foreign understanding, which would, in turn, stimulate initiatives with Chinese colleagues at many levels of interaction.
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Global change is a current priority of the Pacific Science Association, which could be an organizing force for increasing China's participation in international global change research. · Collaboration on paleoclimate would provide foreign access to these valuable and often unique data and would facilitate the addition of predictive capacities to existing Chinese strengths in descriptive paleoresearch.
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