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Main Title Informing an effective response to climate change /
CORP Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on America's Climate Choices.
Publisher National Academies Press,
Year Published 2010
OCLC Number 644689120
ISBN 9780309145947; 0309145945
Subjects Climatic changes--United States ; Global temperature changes--Environmental aspects ; Greenhouse gases--Environmental aspects--United States ; Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric--Environmental aspects--United States ; Climatic changes--Environmental aspects ; Climatic changes--Environmental aspects--United States
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National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12784
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/epa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3564200
National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12784#toc
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EJAM  QC981.8.C5I54 2010 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 10/25/2011 DISPERSAL
EKDM  QC981.8.C5I54 2010 CEMM/EPD Library/Athens,GA 02/11/2014
ELAM  QC903.2.U6I54 2010 Region 5 Library/Chicago,IL 03/02/2015
ELBM  QC981.8.C5N3516 2010 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 02/16/2021
EOAM  QC981.8.C5I54 2010 Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO 05/14/2012
ERAM  QC981.8.C5 I54 2010 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 01/18/2011
Collation xix, 325 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-300).
Contents Notes
Introduction -- Many different decision makers are making choices to respond to climate change -- Decision frameworks for effective responses to climate change -- Resources for effective climate decisions -- Climate services: informing America about climate variability and change, impacts, and response options -- Informing greenhouse gas management -- International information needs -- Education and communication. "Global climate change is one of America's most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activity--especially the use of fossil fuels, industrial processes, livestock production, waste disposal, and land use change--is affecting global average temperatures, snow and ice cover, sea-level, ocean acidity, growing seasons and precipitation patterns, ecosystems, and human health. Climate-related decisions are being carried out by almost every agency of the federal government, as well as many state and local government leaders and agencies, businesses and individual citizens. Decision makers must contend with the availability and quality of information, the efficacy of proposed solutions, the unanticipated consequences resulting from decisions, the challenge of implementing chosen actions, and must consider how to sustain the action over time and respond to new information. Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change, a volume in the America's Climate Choices series, describes and assesses different activities, products, strategies, and tools for informing decision makers about climate change and helping them plan and execute effective, integrated responses. It discusses who is making decisions (on the local, state, and national levels), who should be providing information to make decisions, and how that information should be provided. It covers all levels of decision making, including international, state, and individual decision making. While most existing research has focused on the physical aspect of climate change, Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change employs theory and case study to describe the efforts undertaken so far, and to guide the development of future decision-making resources. Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change offers much-needed guidance to those creating public policy and assists in implementing that policy. The information presented in this book will be invaluable to the research community, especially social scientists studying climate change; practitioners of decision-making assistance, including advocacy organizations, non-profits, and government agencies; and college-level teachers and students."--Publisher description.