@BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Global Change Research Needs and Opportunities for 2022-2031", isbn = "978-0-309-26134-0", abstract = "The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change. Global Change Research Needs and Opportunities for 2022-2031 advises the USGCRP on how best to meet its mandate in light of climate change impacts happening today and projected into the future. This report identifies critical climate change risks, research needed to support decision-making relevant to managing these risks, and opportunities for the USGCRP's participating agencies and other partners to advance these research priorities over the next decade.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26055/global-change-research-needs-and-opportunities-for-2022-2031", year = 2021, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Accomplishments of the U.S. Global Change Research Program", isbn = "978-0-309-45501-5", abstract = "The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is an interagency program, established by the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990, mandated by Congress to \"assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change\". Since the USGCRP began, scientific understanding of global change has increased and the information needs of the nation have changed dramatically. \n\nA better understanding of what is changing and why can help decision makers in the public and private sectors cope with ongoing change. Accomplishments of the U.S. Global Change Research Program highlights the growth of global change science in the quarter century that the USGCRP has been in existence, and documents some of its contributions to that growth through its primary functions of interagency planning and coordination, and of synthesis of research and practice to inform decision making.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24670/accomplishments-of-the-us-global-change-research-program", year = 2017, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Implementing Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan", isbn = "978-0-309-08865-7", abstract = "The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -- the Climate Change Research Initiative -- whose primary goal is to \"measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources.\"", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10635/implementing-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change", isbn = "978-0-309-13173-5", abstract = "Climate change is one of the most important global environmental problems facing the world today. Policy decisions are already being made to limit or adapt to climate change and its impacts, but there is a need for greater integration between science and decision making. This book proposes six priorities for restructuring the United States' climate change research program to develop a more robust knowledge base and support informed responses:\n\n Reorganize the Program Around Integrated Scientific-Societal Issues\n Establish a U.S. Climate Observing System\n Support a New Generation of Coupled Earth System Models\n Strengthen Research on Adaptation, Mitigation, and Vulnerability\n Initiate a National Assessment of the Risks and Costs of Climate Change Impacts and Options to Respond\n Coordinate Federal Efforts to Provide Climate Information, Tools, and Forecasts Routinely to Decision Makers\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12595/restructuring-federal-climate-research-to-meet-the-challenges-of-climate-change", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results", isbn = "978-0-309-10826-3", abstract = "The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) coordinates the efforts of 13 federal agencies to understand why climate is changing, to improve predictions about how it will change in the future, and to use that information to assess impacts on human systems and ecosystems and to better support decision making. Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program is the first review of the CCSP's progress since the program was established in 2002. It lays out a method for evaluating the CCSP, and uses that method to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the entire program and to identify areas where progress has not met expectations. The committee found that the program has made good progress in documenting and understanding temperature trends and related environmental changes on a global scale, as well as in understanding the influence of human activities on these observed changes. The ability to predict future climate changes also has improved, but efforts to understand the impacts of such changes on society and analyze mitigation and adaptation strategies are still relatively immature. The program also has not met expectations in supporting decision making, studying regional impacts, and communicating with a wider group of stakeholders.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11934/evaluating-progress-of-the-us-climate-change-science-program-methods", year = 2007, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Planning Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11565/planning-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }