Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Update to the Strategic Plan Document (2016) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
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. The Strategic Plan sets out a research program guiding thirteen federal agencies in accord with the Global Change Research Act (GCRA)
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The first is to improve fundamental scientific understanding of the integrated natural and human components of the Earth system. The second principle is to focus on the essential science needs for reducing ecological and societal vulnerability to global change by increasing resilience and helping the Nation manage risk through well-informed responses." The increasing tension between the Program's traditional research priorities (e.g., the physical science of climate change)
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Editorial and other more detailed Committee comments are included in Appendix D Throughout, the Committee takes care not to supplant the judgment of the USGCRP's leaders with its own view of priorities, but rather to indicate where priorities are not clearly articulated and grounded in an understanding of evolving needs and opportunities and with the directions set forth in the 2012 Strategic Plan.
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