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Introduction
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... . Through the 1990s, the main emphasis of the USGCRP was clearly on enhancing the underlying scientific foundation for understanding processes of global environmental change, a broad and varied suite of challenges which includes future climate change (see Box 2 for a description of global change research)
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... Global Change Research Program's Strategic Plan (NRC, 2012) : "The proposed broadening of the Program -- to better integrate the social and ecological sciences, to inform decisions about mitigation and adaptation, and to emphasize decision support more generally -- is welcome and in fact essential for meeting the legislative mandate for a program aimed at understanding and responding to global change."
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... Global Change Research Program (USGCRP, 2012) , lays out a vision for the Program that "maintains a clear emphasis on advancing global change science, but it also calls for a strengthened focus on ensuring USGCRP science informs real-world decisions and actions."a As described in the Strategic Plan, there are four strategic goals for the Program:  Advance Science -- Advance scientific knowledge of the integrated natural and human components of the Earth system to understand climate and global change.
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... To build a science base that integrates the natural and human components of the Earth system -- which is useful for informing decisions, building a sustained assessment capacity, and broadening public understanding of global change -- the Program requires integration of the perspectives of entities outside the federal government, particularly those responsible for making decisions about global change.
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... In many other domains as well, the Program can meet its goals far better by engaging with a variety of non-federal entities, including state and local governments, international programs and foreign governments, business and community groups, professional societies, mass media entities, educational institutions, and other entities engaged in making or informing global change decisions. Although these entities will not be involved in budgetary decisions, their input needs to be included in setting program priorities.


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