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The USGCRP's Carbon Cycle Working Group asked the National Research Council's Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change to hold a workshop on Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle. The basic purpose of the workshop was to help build bridges between the research communities in the social sciences and the natural sciences that might eventually work together to produce the needed understanding of the carbon cycle-an understanding that...

Presents a definition of decision support that emphasizes communication rather than translation and a strategy by which the small NOAA Sectoral Applications Research program can advance decision support. This book emphasizes that seasonal climate forecasts provide fundamentally fresh kind of information.

The workshop that is the subject of this report was organized by the National Research Council's Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and the Climate Research Committee"--P. vii.

Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

The "tragedy of the commons" is a central concept in human ecology and the study of the environment. It has had tremendous value for stimulating research, but it only describes the reality of human-environment interactions in special situations. Research over the past thirty years has helped clarify how human motivations, rules governing access to resources, the structure of social organizations, and the resource systems themselves interact to...

With effective climate change mitigation policies still under development, and with even the most aggressive proposals unable to halt climate change immediately, many decision makers are focusing unprecedented attention on the need for strategies to adapt to climate changes that are now unavoidable. The effects of climate change will touch every corner of the world's economies and societies, adaptation is inevitable. The remaining question is ...

Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions. This book concludes that public participation improves the quality of federal agencies' decisions about the environment. It details principles and approaches agencies can use to successfully involve the public.