Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Draft Decadal Strategic Plan, 2022-2031 (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D: Line-by-Line Comments
Appendix D: Line-by-Line Comments
Pages 49-60
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Climate change will have large impacts in decades to centuries but land-use change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss may have negative impacts now. P02/L10-11 One thought is to begin the Executive Summary by discussing global change issues and noting that climate change is probably the most consequential but other aspects of global change such as human effects of biodiversity, land use, and (I suggest adding)
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INTRODUCTION Page/line Comment P05/L14 Climate is part of global change. P05/L30 Add NASA to caption for agency logos.
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P07/L21 Use the IPCC definition of climate change, which includes natural as well as anthropogenic change. P07/L36-37 It would be helpful to have some examples such as the definition of "global change" here.
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P09/L29 Cascade? P09/L30 Change "manage" to either address, adapt, or mitigate in the phrase "user driven science needed to manage climate and global change." P09/L34 Another bullet needs to be added here, something that goes beyond quantifying, especially if it's human systems (e.g., supporting research networks, providing a framework, ...)
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P12/L43-44 Could broaden this by instead using "human security" or just "security" instead of "national and international security." That encompasses national and international security, but also domestic tranquility, violence. There is published research projecting increases in crime caused by climate change.
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P16/L5-7 Should include other global change responses e.g., how reduce biodiversity loss, plastic pollution. P16/L9 Humanities?
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P18/L12-13 Yes, and this information can feed back to help determine important future research questions. P18/L17 Why do assessments fit within informing decisions?
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P21-22/L40- This mini-paragraph appears disconnected without some proper nouns -- the L2 verbs are all passive and give no sense of who will do these things and how they connect to the strategic plan. Is the point that the federal regional science organizations will do this as part of/in concert with USGCRP?
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Need language around building global change research at community/two-year colleges and state/local university systems (not just the flagship land-grant institutions)
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GLOSSARY Page/line Comment P30/L15 May not want to put "weather" in the definition of climate change. P30/L16 Climate change is not necessarily anthropogenic.
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P31/L1 "geography" in the conclusion, "rural" not mentioned explicitly anywhere else. P32/L4-5 This is very specific to get a glossary mention (discussed only once in the document)
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