TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Draft Decadal Strategic Plan, 2022-2031 SN - DO - 10.17226/26608 PY - 2022 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26608/review-of-the-us-global-change-research-programs-draft-decadal-strategic-plan-2022-2031 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences AB - More intense heat waves, extended wildfire seasons and other escalating impacts of climate change have made it more important than ever to fill knowledge gaps that improve society's understanding, assessment, and response to global change. The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) - a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to help the United States and the world fill those knowledge gaps - laid out proposed mechanisms and priorities for global change research over the next decade in its draft Decadal Strategic Plan 2022-2031. The draft plan recognizes that priority knowledge gaps have shifted over the past decade as demand has grown for more useful and more inclusive data to inform decision-making, and as the focus on resilience and sustainability has increased. As part of its work in advising the USGCRP since 2011, the National Academies reviewed USGCRP's draft plan to determine how it might be enhanced. Advances in the draft plan include an increased emphasis on social sciences, community engagement with marginalized groups, and promotion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the production of science. Strengthening the interconnections between the plan's core pillars and expanding opportunities for coordination among federal agencies tasked with responding to global climate change would improve the plan. The draft plan could more strongly convey a sense of urgency throughout the plan and would benefit from additional examples of key research outputs that could advance policy and decision making on global change challenges. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Draft Strategic Plan SN - DO - 10.17226/13330 PY - 2012 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13330/a-review-of-the-us-global-change-research-programs-draft-strategic-plan PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies KW - Earth Sciences AB - The U.S. government supports a large, diverse suite of activities that can be broadly characterized as "global change research." Such research offers a wide array of benefits to the nation, in terms of protecting public health and safety, enhancing economic strength and competitiveness, and protecting the natural systems upon which life depends. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which coordinates the efforts of numerous agencies and departments across the federal government, was officially established in 1990 through the U.S. Global Change Research Act (GCRA). In the subsequent years, the scope, structure, and priorities of the Program have evolved, (for example, it was referred to as the Climate Change Science Program [CCSP] for the years 2002-2008), but throughout, the Program has played an important role in shaping and coordinating our nation's global change research enterprise. This research enterprise, in turn, has played a crucial role in advancing understanding of our changing global environment and the countless ways in which human society affects and is affected by such changes. In mid-2011, a new NRC Committee to Advise the USGCRP was formed and charged to provide a centralized source of ongoing whole-program advice to the USGCRP. The first major task of this committee was to provide a review of the USGCRP draft Strategic Plan 2012-2021 (referred to herein as "the Plan"), which was made available for public comment on September 30, 2011. A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Strategic Plan addresses an array of suggestions for improving the Plan, ranging from relatively small edits to large questions about the Program's scope, goals, and capacity to meet those goals. The draft Plan proposes a significant broadening of the Program's scope from the form it took as the CCSP. Outlined in this report, issues of key importance are the need to identify initial steps the Program will take to actually achieve the proposed broadening of its scope, to develop critical science capacity that is now lacking, and to link the production of knowledge to its use; and the need to establish an overall governance structure that will allow the Program to move in the planned new directions. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Review of the Science Mission Directorate's (SMD's) Draft Science Plan: Letter Report DO - 10.17226/11751 PY - 2006 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11751/review-of-the-science-mission-directorates-smds-draft-science-plan PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - In response to the 2005 NASA Authorization Act and to provide a strategy document t to guide implementation of the 2006 NASA Strategic Plan in the areas of Earth and space science, the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) prepared a 2006 draft science plan. To help guide the SMD as it completes this effort, NASA asked the NRC to review the draft science plan. This letter report provides general observations about the plan, and assessments of the plan’s responsiveness to recommendations from recent NRC studies, its attention to interdisciplinary aspects and scientific balance, the plan’s utility to stakeholders, and its general readability and clarity. Finally the report presents recommendations for improving the plan. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - A Review of the Use of Science and Adaptive Management in California's Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan SN - DO - 10.17226/13148 PY - 2011 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13148/a-review-of-the-use-of-science-and-adaptive-management-in-californias-draft-bay-delta-conservation-plan PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies KW - Earth Sciences AB - The San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is a large, complex estuarine ecosystem in California. It has been substantially altered by dikes, levees, channelization, pumps, human development, introduced species, dams on its tributary streams and contaminants. The Delta supplies water from the state's wetter northern regions to the drier southern regions and also serves as habitat for many species, some of which are threatened and endangered. The restoration of water exacerbated tensions over water allocation in recent years, and have led to various attempts to develop comprehensive plans to provide reliable water supplies and to protect the ecosystem. One of these plans is the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The report, A Review of the Use of Science and Adaptive Management in California's Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan, determines that the plan is incomplete in a number of important areas and takes this opportunity to identify key scientific and structural gaps that, if addressed, could lead to a more successful and comprehensive final BDCP. The plan is missing the type of structure usually associated with current planning methods in which the goals and objectives are specified, alternative measure for achieving the objectives are introduced and analyzed, and a course of action in identified based on analytical optimization of economic, social, and environmental factors. Yet the panel underscores the importance of a credible and a robust BDCP in addressing the various water management problems that beset the Delta. A stronger, more complete, and more scientifically credible BDCP that effectively integrates and utilizes science could indeed pave the way toward the next generation of solutions to California's chronic water problems. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan SN - DO - 10.17226/18609 PY - 2013 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18609/review-of-the-draft-2014-science-mission-directorate-science-plan PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a time when its budget is under considerable stress. SMD's Science Plan serves to provide more detail on its four traditional science disciplines - astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space physics (also called heliophysics), planetary science, and Earth remote sensing and related activities - than is possible in the agency-wide Strategic Plan. Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan comments on the responsiveness of SMD's Science Plan to the National Research Council's guidance on key science issues and opportunities in recent NRC decadal reports. This study focuses on attention to interdisciplinary aspects and overall scientific balance; identification and exposition of important opportunities for partnerships as well as education and public outreach; and integration of technology development with the science program. The report provides detailed findings and recommendations relating to the draft Science Plan. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Review of the Draft 2019 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan SN - DO - 10.17226/25587 PY - 2019 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25587/review-of-the-draft-2019-science-mission-directorate-science-plan PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) ties together diverse researchers, sponsors, and resources to develop the science community’s understanding of the universe. Within scientific organizations like NASA, it is important to establish clear strategies and goals to guide research and foster new discoveries across varying missions. SMD created a draft for their 2019 Science Plan, and a review of this draft is necessary to ensure that the plan establishes clear, attainable, relevant, and ambitious goals. Review of the Draft 2019 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan provides comments on and recommendations for SMD’s draft. Comments in this report focus on the level of ambition of the specified strategies in light of current and emerging opportunities to advance Earth and space science over the next 5 years, the ability of SMD to meet the science objectives in the most recent decadal surveys through implementation of specified strategies, additional strategies for SMD’s considerations, and the general readability and clarity of the draft. Recommendations in this report identify important improvements for the 2019 Science Plan. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Review of the Draft Research and Restoration Plan for Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (Western Alaska) Salmon SN - DO - 10.17226/11562 PY - 2006 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11562/review-of-the-draft-research-and-restoration-plan-for-arctic-yukon-kuskokwim-western-alaska-salmon PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences KW - Environment and Environmental Studies AB - Declines in the abundance of salmon in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) region of western Alaska in the late 1990s and early 2000s created hardships for the people and communities who depend on this resource. Based on recommendations from a 2004 National Academies report, the AYK Sustainable Salmon Initiative (SSI) developed a research and restoration plan to help understand the reasons for this decline and to help support sustainable management in the region. This report reviews the draft plan, recommending some clarification, shortening, and other improvements, with a better focus on the relationship between the underlying intellectual model and the research questions, and a clearer discussion of local and traditional knowledge and capacity building. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - A Review of the Draft Ocean Research Priorities Plan: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States DO - 10.17226/11789 PY - 2006 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11789/a-review-of-the-draft-ocean-research-priorities-plan-charting PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences AB - The National Research Council was asked to review the draft Ocean Research Priorities Plan (ORPP), Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade. The development of the draft ORPP represents the first coordinated national research planning effort involving all federal agencies that support ocean science. The draft plan succeeds in a number of important ways: the central link between the ocean and society is clear and well articulated, the six broad themes around which the report is organized succeed in capturing the main ocean-related issues facing society in a comprehensive and coherent way, and the plan includes research priorities in the social sciences, a necessary component for improving ocean stewardship. The draft ORPP may be improved by the addition of (1) a bold and compelling vision for the future of ocean science research; (2) a more comprehensive description of the needs and opportunities for multidisciplinary research, as well as research partnerships; and (3) clearly stated goals, challenges, and research priorities and a description of how these relate to existing programs and new initiatives. Finally, the plan should be reorganized to include a discrete section devoted to cross-cutting elements that are central to the vision for ocean research. The cross-cutting themes should appear toward the beginning of the plan as a way to reinforce the importance of these elements in creating the foundation for progress on the societal themes. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Final Comments on the Science Plan for the North Pacific Research Board SN - DO - 10.17226/11235 PY - 2005 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11235/final-comments-on-the-science-plan-for-the-north-pacific-research-board PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies KW - Agriculture AB - The North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) was established by Congress in 1997 to recommend marine research activities to the Secretary of Commerce on or relating to the fisheries or marine ecosystem in the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, Arctic Ocean, and related bodies of water. NPRB called on the National Academies to develop a comprehensive long range science plan pertaining to its research activities. This assistance has been provided in two phases. In phase one, beginning in early 2003, a National Academies committee worked to understand the purpose of the NPRB, gather information to help identify research needs, and provide advice on the components of a sound science plan. The committee's assessment is contained in a report released in early 2004, Elements of a Science Plan for the North Pacific Research Board. With this guidance as a tool, the NPRB staff, Science Panel, and Advisory Panel worked together to write a draft science plan to steer the program in the coming decade. During the second phase, the same committee reviewed the NPRB's draft science plan and provided final feedback to the NPRB. It is a focused review, generally following the organization of the NPRB document. This report is intended primarily as a direct communication from the committee to those planning the NPRB's programs, to help them improve the science plan and ensure successful implementation. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - James L. Brown A2 - David M. Prendez A2 - Joonbum Lee A2 - Alicia Romo A2 - John L. Campbell A2 - Jessica Hutton A2 - Ingrid Potts A2 - Darren Torbic TI - Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems 2021 Update, Volume 2: Conduct of Research Report DO - 10.17226/26474 PY - 2022 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26474/human-factors-guidelines-for-road-systems-2021-update-volume-2-conduct-of-research-report PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Human factors principles and concepts can be used by highway designers and traffic engineers to improve roadway design and traffic safety.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 316: Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems 2021 Update, Volume 2: Conduct of Research Report describes the process of updating guidelines, which were delivered in NCHRP Web-Only Document 316: Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems 2021 Update, Volume 1: Updated and New Chapters.Supplemental to the document is a presentation describing the updated and new chapters. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Review of NOAA's Plan for the Scientific Data Stewardship Program SN - DO - 10.17226/11421 PY - 2005 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11421/review-of-noaas-plan-for-the-scientific-data-stewardship-program PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences AB - To better understand our climate system, it is important that we have climate data records (CDRs)--time series of measurements of sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to determine climate variability and change--that possess the accuracy, longevity, and stability to facilitate credible climate monitoring. In 2004, the National Research Council (NRC) published Climate Data Records from Environmental Satellites to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with initial guidelines on how to develop and implement an effective CDR program. NOAA used this book to draft a plan for a new Scientific Data Stewardship (SDS) program, and then asked NRC to review it. The new program will be responsible for processing, archiving, and distributing observations from satellite and supporting ground-based platforms for monitoring, diagnosing, understanding, predicting, modeling, and assessing climate variation and change. The NRC review outlines several ways in which to improve NOAA's draft plan, most importantly by clarifying advisory mechanisms, providing more detail about how NOAA will coordinate with important partners in generating CDRs, articulating how the program will prioritize its activities, and developing ways to realistically project future costs. However, the draft plan is sound overall and NOAA should immediately begin implementing the SDS program while revising the plan as recommended in the book. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Review of U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Study on Implementation of Changes to the Section 4(f) Process: September 15, 2011, Letter Report DO - 10.17226/22855 PY - 2011 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22855/review-of-us-department-of-transportation-usdot-study-on-implementation-of-changes-to-the-section-4f-process-september-15-2011-letter-report PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - The TRB Committee for a Review of U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Study on Implementation of Changes to the Section 4(f) Process has delivered its third and final letter report to the USDOT. The report explores the results of the committee’s review of whether the findings and conclusions of the USDOT’s draft Phase II report are supported by evidence presented in the report. The letter report also includes the committee’s recommendations for improving the draft Phase II report.Legal rulings and regulations pursuant to Section 4(f) of U.S. Department of Transportation Act of 1966 set high standards for protecting parks, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, and historic properties from being adversely affected by transportation projects. The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) requires the USDOT to streamline the Section 4(f) evaluation process and to study the consequences of these regulatory changes.The USDOT is conducting the mandated study in two phases. Phase I examined how the de minimis provision has been applied since it was enacted in August 2005. It also describes the feasible and prudent avoidance alternative standard and reviews the process used to develop the final rule. The Phase I draft was completed in mid-December 2008. Phase II of the study focuses on evaluating implementation of the feasible and prudent avoidance alternative standard and on updating and extending the evaluation of the de minimis impact provision.In accordance with the USDOT‘s two-phase study, TRB carried out its independent review in three stages. In the first stage, the TRB committee reviewed the USDOT‘s Phase I draft study plans and provided a letter report in June 2008 documenting the committee‘s evaluation. In the second stage, documented in the second letter report provided in April 2009, the TRB committee reviewed the draft Phase I study report and evaluated the draft study plan for Phase II. The third letter report reviews the draft Phase II report and assesses whether the findings and conclusions are supported by evidence presented in the report. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Letter Report on Review of the U.S. DOT Strategic Plan for Research, Development, and Technology 2013-2018 DO - 10.17226/22589 PY - 2013 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22589/letter-report-on-review-of-the-us-dot-strategic-plan-for-research-development-and-technology-2013-2018 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - On April 30, 2013, TRB’s Committee for Review of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Strategic Plan for Research, Development, and Technology (RD&T) sent its letter report to Ray LaHood, Secretary of the U.S. DOT. Section 508 of the 2012 surface transportation authorization statute, as amended by Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP 21), requires the U.S. DOT to develop a 5-year strategic plan for federal transportation RD&T that describes the primary purposes, topics, expected outcomes, and anticipated funding of RD&T.The committee’s letter report presents the results of its review of the draft RD&T plan. The report includes both short- and long-term recommendations; the former apply to the current plan and the latter to future strategic plans. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - A Review of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy SN - DO - 10.17226/11984 PY - 2007 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11984/a-review-of-the-ocean-research-priorities-plan-and-implementation-strategy PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences AB - Ocean research offers countless benefits, from improving fisheries management to discovering new drugs to enabling early detection of tsunamis and hurricanes. At the request of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST), the National Research Council convened a committee to review the draft and final versions of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy described in Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade, which represents the first coordinated national ocean research planning effort involving all federal agencies that support ocean science. The plan presents an ambitious vision for ocean research that will be of great benefit to the ocean sciences community and the nation. This book contains both sets of findings (i.e., the committee's review of the JSOST's draft plan [A Review of the Draft Ocean Research Priorities Plan: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States] and the review of the final plan). This book recommends that JSOST employ a variety of outreach mechanisms to continue to engage nonfederal partners in ocean research planning efforts, such as establishing external committees to provide scientific and technical advice and to review progress on implementation of the research plan. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Implementing Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan SN - DO - 10.17226/10635 PY - 2004 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10635/implementing-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences KW - Environment and Environmental Studies AB - 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." ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - A Review of the EPA Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan: Parts I and II SN - DO - 10.17226/10772 PY - 2004 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10772/a-review-of-the-epa-water-security-research-and-technical-support-action-plan PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies KW - Conflict and Security Issues AB - The report examines a draft plan, prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency, that identifies critical security issues for drinking water and wastewater and outlines related research and technical support needs. This report recommends increased attention to interagency coordination and encourages additional consideration of current restrictions on secure information dissemination. It further suggests that EPA incorporate the results of their research activities into an integrated water security guidance document to improve support for water and wastewater utilities. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Technology Pathways: Assessing the Integrated Plan for a Next Generation Air Transportation System SN - DO - 10.17226/11420 PY - 2005 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11420/technology-pathways-assessing-the-integrated-plan-for-a-next-generation PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - In 2003, Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to establish the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) Joint Planning and Development Office (JDPO) to plan the development of an air transportation system capable of meeting potential air traffic demand for 2025. All federal agencies involved in aviation participate in the JDPO providing the opportunity overcome many of the major barriers to developing an effective NGATS. To assist this process, the NRC was asked to examine the first NGATS Integrated Plan prepared by JPDO and submitted to Congress in 2004. This report provides a review of the vision and goals, the operational concepts, and the R&D roadmap developed by the plan; an analysis of the JDPO integrated product teams created to carry out the planning; and an assessment of the implementation process. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Regional Issues in Aquifer Storage and Recovery for Everglades Restoration: A Review of the ASR Regional Study Project Management Plan of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan SN - DO - 10.17226/10521 PY - 2002 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10521/regional-issues-in-aquifer-storage-and-recovery-for-everglades-restoration PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies AB - The report reviews a comprehensive research plan on Everglades restoration drafted by federal and Florida officials that assesses a central feature of the restoration: a proposal to drill more than 300 wells funneling up to 1.7 billion gallons of water a day into underground aquifers, where it would be stored and then pumped back to the surface to replenish the Everglades during dry periods. The report says that the research plan goes a long way to providing information needed to settle remaining technical questions and clearly responds to suggestions offered by scientists in Florida and in a previous report by the Research Council. ER - TY - BOOK TI - Space Studies Board Annual Report 2006 DO - 10.17226/12082 PY - 2007 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12082/space-studies-board-annual-report-2006 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Space and Aeronautics ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta SN - DO - 10.17226/13394 PY - 2012 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13394/sustainable-water-and-environmental-management-in-the-california-bay-delta PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies KW - Earth Sciences AB - Extensively modified over the last century and a half, California's San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary remains biologically diverse and functions as a central element in California's water supply system. Uncertainties about the future, actions taken under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) and companion California statues, and lawsuits have led to conflict concerning the timing and amount of water that can be diverted from the Delta for agriculture, municipal, and industrial purposes and concerning how much water is needed to protect the Delta ecosystem and its component species. Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta focuses on scientific questions, assumptions, and conclusions underlying water-management alternatives and reviews the initial public draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan in terms of adequacy of its use of science and adaptive management. In addition, this report identifies the factors that may be contributing to the decline of federally listed species, recommend future water-supple and delivery options that reflect proper consideration of climate change and compatibility with objectives of maintaining a sustainable Bay-Delta ecosystem, advises what degree of restoration of the Delta system is likely to be attainable, and provides metrics that can be used by resource managers to measure progress toward restoration goals. ER -