Global environmental change : research pathways for the next decade / Committee on Global Change Research, Board on Sustainable Development, Policy Division, National Research Council
- Bib ID:
- 1598220
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999
- xvii, 595 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0309064201 (alkaline paper) (hardback)
- Summary:
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"How can we understand and rise to the challenges of global environmental change? One clear answer is to understand the science of global change, not solely in terms of the processes that control changes in climate, the composition of the atmosphere, and biogeochemistry, but also in how ecosystems and human society interact with these processes and changes. This volume encourages a renewed commitment to understanding global change and sets a direction for research in the decade ahead. Through case studies the book explores what can be learned from the lessons of the past 20 years and what are the outstanding scientific questions, and what are the corresponding observational, monitoring and data needs."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction and Background
- 2. Changes to the Biology and Biochemistry of Ecosystems
- 3. Changes in the Climate System on Seasonal to Interannual Timescales
- 4. Changes in the Climate System on Decade-to-Century Timescales
- 5. Changes in the Chemistry of the Atmosphere
- 6. Paleoclimate Overview
- 7. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
- 8. Observations
- 9. Processing and Distributing Earth Observations and Information
- 10. Modeling
- 11. Findings and Recommendations.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also available online via the World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Global Change Research
- Copyright:
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- 1999
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