Enhancing Participation in the U.S. Global Change Research Program (2016) / Chapter Skim
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The Committee did not set out to undertake a comprehensive survey of the capabilities in federal agencies and other partners that should either use or contribute global change research in the pursuit of their missions. Rather, the Committee explores the current set of USGCRP capabilities in comparison to goals and objectives in the Strategic Plan and identifies examples of how adjustments in participation could enable the program to better meet its stated goals (see Appendix A for the Committee's Statement of Task)
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Mismatch between USGCRP Goals and Participation As has been described above, there is significant and growing pressure from decision makers in numerous sectors for better information to support decisions about adaptation and mitigation, to inform ongoing assessments, and for further efforts to communicate global change information and educate interested and affected parties. This has expanded the Program's focus from Goal 1 to include Goals 2, 3, and 4, but at the same time introduced a tension between the role of Goal 1 -- to "advance science" including discovery, system approaches, and innovation -- with a role that provides "use oriented" science that is needed in support of "services" for Goals 2, 3, and 4.
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Furthermore, the types of partnerships will continue to evolve as the challenges of global change, particularly climate change, increase. The USGCRP will need to continue to explore new partnerships to help address these evolving challenges.
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Evolving in ways that support diverse network activities will present a challenge to the USGCRP, but such evolution is consistent with the program's strategic plan. The way in which the USGCRP engages will differ across various potential partners and across the four goals of the Strategic Plan.
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Considering the Full Costs and Benefits of Participation Participation in the activities of USGCRP takes many forms, but whatever the form, that participation does have real costs associated with it. Core participants devote staff time to supporting USGCRP central activities, including coordination meetings among the participants, and they participate in extensive budget crosscuts and analyses of how their programs are addressing administration priorities for global change research.
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These costs will have to be weighed against the benefits of enhanced collaboration to the agencies, such as the ability to influence directly an administration's priorities for global change research, and more diffuse benefits to the nation as a whole. As has been mentioned in the examples throughout the report, there are benefits to the agencies from enhanced participation in USGCRP activities, and those benefits must be perceived to be important if there is to be buy-in from the agencies.
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Such a review may provide a basis to engage partners beyond the existing USGCRP membership. Doing so could provide tangible benefits to USGCRP and the nation -- including users of global change science and everyone who is or will be affected by global change.
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