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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Risk Characterization: Understanding Risk
Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Making Climate Forecasts Matter
El Nino has been with us for centuries, but now we can forcast it, and thus can prepare far in advance for the extreme climatic events it brings. The emerging ability to forecast climate may be of tr …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change: People and Pixels
Space-based sensors are giving us an ever-closer and more comprehensive look at the earth’s surface; they also have the potential to tell us about human activity. This volume examines the possibiliti …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change: Environmentally Significant Consumption
There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the global environment. For some observers, "consumption" is at the root of global environmental threats: wealthy individuals a …
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€62.47
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and Committee on Global Change Research: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
This publication is extracted from a much larger report, Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, which addresses the full range of the scientific issues concerning global …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Draft Strategic Plan
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, …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Draft Strategic Plan
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, …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Social and Political Stresses: Climate and Social Stress
Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental eventsslowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to e …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Social and Political Stresses: Climate and Social Stress
Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental eventsslowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to e …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Board on Life Sciences: Can Earth’s and Society’s Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?
The Earth’s population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next40 years. Current projections state that the Earth will need to support 9.6 billion people by the year …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Board on Life Sciences: Can Earth’s and Society’s Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?
The Earth’s population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next40 years. Current projections state that the Earth will need to support 9.6 billion people by the year …
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€41.24
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Risks and Risk Governance in Shale Gas Development
Natural gas in deep shale formations, which can be developed by hydraulic fracturing and associated technologies (often collectively referred to as "fracking") is dramatically increasing pr …
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€3.86
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Risks and Risk Governance in Shale Gas Development
Natural gas in deep shale formations, which can be developed by hydraulic fracturing and associated technologies (often collectively referred to as "fracking") is dramatically increasing pr …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Enhancing Participation in the U.S. Global Change Research Program
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-ind …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Enhancing Participation in the U.S. Global Change Research Program
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-ind …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon: Assessment of Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon
The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1-metric ton increase in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere in th …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon: Assessment of Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon
The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1-metric ton increase in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere in th …
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€53.38
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Update to the Strategic Plan Document
The Update to the Strategic Plan (USP) is a supplement to the Ten-Year Strategic Plan of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) completed in 2012. The Strategic Plan sets out a research pro …
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€3.83
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Update to the Strategic Plan Document
The Update to the Strategic Plan (USP) is a supplement to the Ten-Year Strategic Plan of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) completed in 2012. The Strategic Plan sets out a research pro …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Characterizing Risk in Climate Change Assessments
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1990 to "assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Characterizing Risk in Climate Change Assessments
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1990 to "assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of …
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€48.79
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon: Valuing Climate Damages
The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages – that is, the monetized value of the net impacts, both negative and positive …
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€3.84
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon: Valuing Climate Damages
The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages – that is, the monetized value of the net impacts, both negative and positive …
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€76.23
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Accomplishments of the U.S. Global Change Research Program
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 …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Accomplishments of the U.S. Global Change Research Program
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 …
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€37.40
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Integrating Social and Behavioral Sciences Within the Weather Enterprise
Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Forecasts of snow and ice storms, hurricanes and storm surge, extreme heat, and other severe …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Integrating Social and Behavioral Sciences Within the Weather Enterprise
Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Forecasts of snow and ice storms, hurricanes and storm surge, extreme heat, and other severe …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Decision Framework for Managing the Spirit Lake and Toutle River System at Mount St. Helens
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State radically changed the physical and socio-economic landscapes of the region. The eruption destroyed the summit of the volcano, sendi …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Decision Framework for Managing the Spirit Lake and Toutle River System at Mount St. Helens
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State radically changed the physical and socio-economic landscapes of the region. The eruption destroyed the summit of the volcano, sendi …
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€77.02
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Review of the Draft Fourth National Climate Assessment
Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By taking steps to adapt to and mitigate climate change, …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Review of the Draft Fourth National Climate Assessment
Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By taking steps to adapt to and mitigate climate change, …
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€62.45
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System
The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, interconnected coastal system. The physical landscap …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System
The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, interconnected coastal system. The physical landscap …
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€62.56
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands
The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and natural systems. Warming and drying conditions threa …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands
The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and natural systems. Warming and drying conditions threa …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change: Environmentally Significant Consumption
There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the global environment. For some observers, "consumption" is at the root of global environmental threats: wealthy individuals a …
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€44.35
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Risk Characterization: Understanding Risk
Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live …
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€44.41
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change: Global Environmental Change
Global environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our time. Yet understanding the human sidehuman causes of and responses to environmental changehas not yet received …
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€81.30
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change: People and Pixels
Space-based sensors are giving us an ever-closer and more comprehensive look at the earth’s surface; they also have the potential to tell us about human activity. This volume examines the possibiliti …
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€31.46
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Making Climate Forecasts Matter
El Nino has been with us for centuries, but now we can forcast it, and thus can prepare far in advance for the extreme climatic events it brings. The emerging ability to forecast climate may be of tr …
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€36.67
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and Committee on Global Change Research: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
This publication is extracted from a much larger report, Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, which addresses the full range of the scientific issues concerning global …
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€21.24
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Global Change Research Needs and Opportunities for 2022-2031
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-ind …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on a Systems Approach to Reducing Consumer Food Waste: National Strategy to Reduce Food Waste at the Consumer Level
Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer level. Despite food’s essential role as a source of …
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€70.17
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Accelerating Decarbonization of the U.S. Energy System
The world is transforming its energy system from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary anthropogenic greenhouse gas. This energy …
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Academia Mexicana de Ciencias & Academia Nacional de Medicina de México: Advancing United States-Mexico Binational Sustainability Partnerships
The border region shared by the United States and Mexico is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safeguarding the region’s sustainable natural resources and …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Draft Decadal Strategic Plan, 2022-2031
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, as …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Environmental Challenges and Prospects for Community Relocation in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas
Strategically moving communities and infrastructureincluding homes and businessesaway from environmentally high-risk areas, such as vulnerable coastal regions, has been referred to as "managed r …
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€23.15
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Assisted Resettlement and Community Viability on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast
In 2021, the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sponsored a two-year consensus study, Managed Retreat in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region, to examine and …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Role of Net Metering in the Evolving Electricity System
Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed generation energy technologies such as rooftop solar. Ne …
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€54.05
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Review of the Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment
Roughly every four years, the U.S. Global Change Research Program produces a congressionally mandated assessment of global change science and the impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change …
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€52.63
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Climate Security in South Asia
The South Asia region presents a confluence of major climate impacts and key security issues. From a weather and climate standpoint, the region experiences a wide range of hazards, such as the recent …
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€21.87
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Pathways to an Equitable and Just Energy Transition
While technologies are clearly instrumental in transitioning away from fossil fuel-based energy and toward a decarbonized economy, decisions about which technologies are prioritized, how they are imp …
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Board on Environmental Change and Society & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change
Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes. Translating policies, investments, or built infrastructure-reshaping mandates into real and sustained local im …
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€24.44
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Climate Security in Central America
To advance a systems understanding of climate-related security risks in the Central America region, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop titled Climate Se …
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€24.32
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Incorporating Climate Change and Climate Policy into Macroeconomic Modeling
Macroeconomic models, essential for decision making and federal budget planning, may not appropriately consider the wide breadth of climate-related impacts that potentially have large macroeconomic s …
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€23.12
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States
Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits – from better public health to new economic opportunities. The United States has a historic opportunity to lead t …
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€90.08
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Research on the Dynamics of Climate and the Macroeconomy
Understanding the intricate relationship between climate dynamics and the macroeconomy is crucial for informed policy and long-term planning. However, there is a gap between climate modeling and the …
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€21.87
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Developing and Assessing Ideas for Social and Behavioral Research to Speed Efficient and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization
Interest in decarbonizing various sectors of the U.S. economy has produced a rich body of scholarly research, policy studies, and practitioner reports on technology pathways and scenarios, with a par …
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€23.09
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Committee on Managed Retreat in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region: Community-Driven Relocation
Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually since 2018. The variety and frequency of storms have exa …
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€70.69
