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Chapter 5: Concluding Comments
Chapter 5: Concluding Comments
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As evidenced in the draft USP, these include questions about the costs and benefits of various mitigation and adaptation options and how best to achieve their objectives; about the feasibility, costs, and benefits of options for climate intervention; about the multiple stresses a changing climate and other global changes put on ecological and socioeconomic systems; about ways to better inform decision making in the face of climate change and uncertainties about its specific future consequences; and about the processes of decision support and what makes some decision support tools and approaches more effective. These developments call for better engagement and integration of multiple additional branches of science into the USGCRP, particularly the social sciences.
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The Program needs also to catalyze research on the processes that foster successful boundary spanning. It is not surprising that these tensions are unresolved -- the institutional experiment is playing out in real time.
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