Enhancing Participation in the U.S. Global Change Research Program (2016) / Chapter Skim
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Opportunities for Broader Participation
Opportunities for Broader Participation
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Box 4 presents an example of data that could be used to provide baseline information on vulnerability and resilience to global changes and to measure the effectiveness of adaptation efforts. It also discusses the broader challenge of linking data collected for purposes unrelated to global change with the needs of global change science and ways to meet it.
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These data include human population characteristics, economic productivity and consumption, health and disease patterns, insurance coverage, crop yields, hazards exposure, air quality, distributions of threatened and endangered species, ecosystem status, forest inventory, livestock, fisheries, soil and vegetation distributions, fresh water quality and quantity, and nutrient distributions.a Although developed for purposes unrelated to global change, many of these databases could provide valuable baseline information about human and biological systems that may be affected by global changes and could be used in vulnerability assessment and evaluating possible adaptation efforts. Federal agencies with such resources that are not currently central participants in USGCRP activities include parts of USDA, DOC, DOI, HHS, DOT, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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This is embodied in the work of the Global Health Security Agenda,4 which seeks -- in collaboration with other nations, international organizations, and public and private stakeholders -- to accelerate progress toward a world safe and secure from infectious disease threats and to promote global health security as an international security priority. 4 http://www.globalhealth.gov/global-health-topics/global-health-security/ghsagenda.html
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Achieving these aims will become more effective and efficient by considering how climate change, globalization of trade and travel, and other global environmental changes could affect the geographic range, incidence, and seasonality of infectious diseases, as well as by using environmental data in developing and deploying early warning systems. Agencies involved in this agenda include HHS, DOS, DoD, USDA, and USAID. Determining the extent to which global change contributes to events such as the recent Ebola crisis or the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe is extremely difficult because of multiple interacting drivers, but such crises exemplify the kinds of events anticipated with accelerating global change.
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These agencies will need credible, objective, and science-based means to assess options, measure progress, and inform choices. For example, to design programs to reduce GHG emissions from product and service supply chains, they need life-cycle assessment data, as well as research to understand opportunities and barriers to meeting particular emissions reductions goals.
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The 2012 Strategic Plan states that Goal 3 is to "Build sustained assessment capacity that improves the Nation's ability to understand, anticipate, and respond to global change impacts and vulnerabilities" (USGCRP, 2012)
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NOAA has been a visible presence in the Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR) , including the current chair of the SGCR, who is an internationally renowned NOAA climate scientist.
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For example, in July of 2011, President Obama issued Executive Order 13580, establishing the Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development & Permitting in Alaska. The Order was issued in response to growing pressure from within and outside government to establish an improved decision-making process with respect to offshore oil and gas exploration and production in Alaska (Clement et al., 2013)
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. With GLISA and CDC support, MI DCH previously identified several health risks and associated climate stressors, and GLISA is continuing to tailor climate information to address specific MI DCH concerns with respect to projected climate change.
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. Goal 4 – Communicate and Educate The 2012 Strategic Plan commits USGCRP to strengthen communication and education research, to cultivate a scientific workforce that understands global change, and to integrate "global change communication, education, and engagement into core Program activities" (p.
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to the formation of national organizations like the Urban Sustainability Directors' Network to reports such as the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience Recommendations to the President to local urban adaptation plans like New York's PlaNYC. The coordination between federal agencies addressing urban issues and USGCRP has been limited to date.
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Regional and federal agencies working on collaborative planning anticipate, at this point, that communities will adjust land use development policies and decisions to account for sea level rise and coastal flooding impacts. There is also the expectation that communities will enact updated wild land fire measures and drought mitigation practices stemming from the regional planning and coordination activities currently in process (including numerous resources utilized by the NCA10)
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in developing improved regional resilience planning that will result in coordinated, independent local resilience plans. This initiative supports cities to integrate solutions to anticipated climate-generated and natural disaster impacts to fulfill federal disaster risk reduction and state GHG reduction and climate adaptation requirements.
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