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3 Integrated Systems-Based Research
3 Integrated Systems-Based Research
Pages 41-48
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This chapter highlights research in human and natural systems, as well as their interactions, that are underemphasized in the current U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP or "Program")
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Global Change Research Act (GCRA) to constrain efforts to build the capabilities needed to provide useful and usable information.
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Given its mandate to coordinate research across multiple agencies and multiple dimensions of global change, it is imperative USGCRP play an important role in accelerating integrated systems-based research and encouraging this approach in cooperative international efforts. The Program has made steps forward since the last decadal plan (notably the sector-based assessments on food security and impacts of climate change on human health)
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Continued advances in fundamental and applied Earth system science over the next decade will be significantly more useful if the integration of natural and social sciences is prioritized. HUMAN SYSTEM AND HUMAN-NATURAL SYSTEM SCIENCE TO SUPPORT DECISION MAKING An important goal of global change research is to increase resilience through improved understanding of ways to effectively manage interdependent risks within and across systems and sectors while meeting other societal objectives.
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. Investments in social science research are needed to improve understanding of the socioeconomic consequences of climate change, as well as behavioral, institutional, and political drivers of climate at different scales -- the implications for migration, global security, supply chains, governance, human health, the insurance industry, and a host of other issues that together define the societal consequences of climate change.
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Climate change is exacerbating current and creating new inequities. Historical inequities drive current inequities that drive future inequities that in turn drive exposure and vulnerability.
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Likewise, the planning process will need to engage a much broader swath of federal agencies and other partners to more fully meet needs for global change information and to take best advantage of diverse capacities. User and Public Participation in Global Change Research Making global change science useful for effective and timely decision making that (1)
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Of special note is the necessity to engage with underserved and disadvantaged communities, who are often at especially high risk from global change, and to invest in research on the deliberative processes themselves so as to learn from experience and enhance capabilities. Disciplinary integration in global-change research is also expected to improve the utility of research outputs to user communities.
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