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... 2012 Strategic Plan. The Strategic plan sets out a long-term vision for the research program to guide the Program's thirteen federal departments and agencies in meeting the mandate of the Global Change Research Act (GCRA)
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... Recommendation 2: The USP should articulate more clearly the USGCRP's recent research accomplishments, as well as the impacts of earlier discoveries, in addition to describing its activities. Balancing discussion of accomplishments across research areas including interdisciplinary and social science research would be useful in establishing the value of the Strategic Plan's arguments in support of each of these lines of research.
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... 5. Human Behaviors and Global Change: The draft USP includes a laudable commitment to fuller integration of social science research into both its fundamental science (understanding interactions of Earth and human systems)
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... Social science research on boundary spanning, boundary organizations, and the networks they facilitate or organize, as well as mechanisms that promote adaptive learning to improve interactions between the research community and the wide range of user communities is also discussed. In addition in Chapter 4, the Committee also comments on the sustained assessment process, indicators, regional climate centers, and international research collaborations.
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  • draft update
  • advance science
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  • science coordinating
  • draft strategic
  • facilitating science
  • fundamental science
  • research act

  • outline priorities
  • research collaborations
  • including interdisciplinary
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  • conduct assessments
  • offers comments
  • prior review
  • climate intervention


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