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Global Climate Change
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Justus, John R
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Fletcher, Susan R
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Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington D.C., USA
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2001-09-26
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Environmental protection
CRSR
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Global Climate Change: The Role for Energy Efficiency
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Sissine, Fred
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington D.C., USA
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2000-02-03
eng
Air pollution
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Energy
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Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues
per
Yacobucci, Brent D
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington D.C., USA
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
1996-01-17
eng
This report reviews several issues relating to alternative fuels and vehicles, mainly to combat dependence on petroleum imports and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report discusses the advantages and drawbacks of various alternative fuels and vehicles, as well as related legislation.
25 pages.
Energy
Alternative fuels - Law and legislation - U.S.
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Global Climate Change: The Kyoto Protocol
per
Fletcher, Susan R
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington D.C., USA
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2005-07-21
eng
Air pollution
Treaties
Global climate change
International affairs
Environmental protection
CRSR
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Climate Change Legislation in the 109th Congress
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Yacobucci, Brent D
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington D.C., USA
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2005-09-09
eng
Climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are a continuing issue in the 109th Congress. Bills directly addressing climate change issues range from those focused primarily on climate change research to comprehensive emissions cap-and-trade programs. Additional bills focus on GHG reporting and registries, or on power plant emissions of carbon dioxide, as part of wider controls on pollutant emissions. The bills vary in their approaches to climate change issues. This report briefly discusses the basic concepts on which these bills are based and compares major provisions of the bills in each of the following categories: climate change research, technology deployment, GHG reporting and registries, and emissions reduction programs.
18 pages.
Air pollution
Congress
Environmental protection
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Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah. With Maps.
per
Powell, John Wesley,; 1834-1902
Washington
Govt. Print. Off.
1879
2006-05
eng
A report on the lands of the Arid Region of the United States, including their agricultural and grazing potential as well as a statement of the rainfall of the western portion of the United States.
xv, 195 p. maps, 30 cm.
Rain and rainfall -- West (U.S.)
Irrigation -- Utah.
Irrigation -- West (U.S.)
Public lands -- United States.
land use
development
land-cover change
plains
grasslands
deserts
prairies
forests
water rights
water issues
freshwater
rainfall
paleoclimatology
desertification
overgrazing
rivers
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United States - Utah
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Fifty Birds of Town and City
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Hines, Bob
per
Anastasi, Peter A.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
1973
2006-07-10
eng
A book depicting 50 common birds in U.S. towns and cities, with illustrations.
50 p. col. illus. 25 cm.
Birds.
Urban animals.
ornithology
biodiversity
habitats
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New landmarks of soil conservation.
Miscellaneous publication (United States. Dept. of Agriculture); no. 473.
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1942
2007-03-22
eng
Discusses various methods for protecting and conserving soil.
20 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Soil conservation -- Southern States.
Erosion.
sheet erosion
gullies
one-crop farming
crop rotation
strip farming
wildlife
floods
land use
land-cover change
habitats
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The church and agricultural progress.
per
Belew, M. Wendell.
per
McCanna, Henry A.
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Mueller, E. W. (Elwin William), 1908-1993.
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O'Rourke, Edward W.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1962-05
2007-03-22
eng
Describes the role of agriculture in the United States from a Christian perspective.
8 p. ; 23 cm.
Christianity and agriculture.
God
agricultural blessings
United States. Dept. of Agriculture -- Anniversaries, etc.
government food programs
Food for Peace
Peace Corps
Hunger.
Rural Areas Development Program
peace
environmental ethics
environmental values
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In celebration of the centennial of the United States Department of Agriculture.
"May 1962"--cover.
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Legumes in soil conservation practices.
Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 163.
per
Pieters, A. J.
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
org
United States. Bureau of Plant Industry.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1938
2007-03-22
eng
Describes measures for preventing soil erosion through the planting of legumes.
8 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Legumes -- Varieties.
Soil conservation.
Crops and soils.
Soil management.
legumes
perennial legumes
soil productivity
erosion
lespedeza sericea
land use
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Facts about wind erosion and dust storms on the Great Plains.
Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 394.
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1961
2007-03-22
eng
Describes the history and conditions of drought, wind erosion, and dust storms in the Great Plains; discusses long-range conservation programs and emergency measures.
8 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Dust storms -- Great Plains.
Soil conservation -- Great Plains.
Wind erosion -- Great Plains.
drought
dust storms
land-cover change
prairies
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Rural planning : the village.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 1441.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
per
Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
org
United States. Government Printing Office.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1940
2007-05
eng
Describes various types of planned villages and provides examples of features in such communities.
ii, 41 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Civic improvement.
village planning
civic center
railroad stations
river fronts
streets
parks and commons
cemeteries
public buildings
Rural development.
rural planning
development
United States - Massachusetts - Middlesex County - Weston
United States - Massachusetts - Norfolk County - Cohasset
United States - California - Stanislaus County - Patterson
United States - Ohio - Summit County - Tallmadge
United States - Massachusetts - Hampshire County - Hadley
United States - Connecticut - Tolland County - Ellington
United States - Massachusetts - Berkshire County - Stockbridge
United States - Pennsylvania - Westmoreland County - Parnassus
United States - North Carolina - Iredell County - Mooresville
United States - Iowa - Jackson County - Bellevue
United States - Pennsylvania - Union County - Lewisburg
United States - North Carolina - Rutherford County - Forest City
United States - Massachusetts - Worcester County - Barre
United States - Ohio - Lake County - LeRoy
United States - Illinois - Carroll County - Lanark
United States - Vermont - Rutland County - Brandon
United States - Ohio - O'Brien County - Primghar
United States - South Dakota - Charles Mix County - Lake Andes
United States - Massachusetts - Worcester County - Petersham
United States - New Jersey - Monmouth County - Freehold
United States - Michigan - Macomb County - Armada
United States - Minnesota - Yellow Medicine County - Canby
United States - Pennsylvania - Lackawanna County - Waverly
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Dual-purpose pines.
Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 168.
org
United States. Forest Service. Division of State and Private Forestry.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1939-01
2007-05
eng
Describes dual-purpose pines, which yield both naval stores and wood; provides suggestions for managing dual-purpose pines.
8 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Longleaf pine -- Southern States.
Slash pine -- Southern States.
Naval stores.
Turpentining.
Forest products industry.
dual-purpose pine
harvesting wood products
marketing of crude gum
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Know your watersheds.
Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 282.
org
United States. Forest Service.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1957-09
2007-05
eng
Describes the necessity of water in everyday life, the water cycle, and provides suggestions for the management of watersheds.
13 p. : ill.
Watersheds.
Water-supply -- United States.
water use
maintaining watersheds
watershed management
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"Formerly AIS no. 67."
Originally issued February 1948.
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Reducing damage to trees from construction work.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 1967.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
per
Fowler, Marvin E. (Marvin Edward), 1904-
per
Gravatt, G. F.
per
Thompson, A. Robert.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
org
United States. Government Printing Office.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1949
2007-05
eng
Describes the damage often inflicted upon trees during construction projects, and explains how to plan projects accordingly to avoid these problems.
ii, 26 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Trees, Care of.
construction work
protecting trees
thinning wooded areas
constructing a fill
drain tile
forestry
development
conservation
arboriculture
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Issued June 1945; reprinted 1949.
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Controlling the Japanese beetle.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 2004.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
per
Fleming, Walter E. (Walter Ernest), 1899-
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1958-03
2007-05
eng
Describes the characteristics of the Japanese beetle, the damage it causes to plants, and methods of control.
13 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Japanese beetle -- Control.
Insect pests -- Control.
methoxychlor
parathion
rotenone
airplane spraying
mist blowers
biodiversity
invasive species
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Global Climate Change: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Status, Trends, and Projections
per
Blodgett, John E
per
Parker, Larry
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington D.C., USA
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2003-08-15
eng
According to the summary, this report reviews U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases in the contexts both of domestic policy and of international obligations and proposals.
Air pollution
Treaties
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International affairs
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emissions
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Climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been an issue in the 108th Congress, as they have been over the past decade. Bills directly addressing climate change issues range from those focused primarily on climate change research (H.R. 1578 and S. 1164) to comprehensive emissions cap and trading programs for all six greenhouse gases (S. 139 and H.R. 4067). This report briefly discusses basic concepts on which these bills are based, and compares major provisions of the bills in each of the following categories: climate change research, GHG reporting and registries, and cap and trade programs.
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Global Climate Change: Market-Based Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
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Discusses Arbor Day as a holiday that recognizes the importance of United States forests and discusses a citizen's duty to preserve them and foster new growth of trees.
ii, 25 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Arbor Day.
national holidays
conservation
civic holidays
environmentalism
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forest care
tree care
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Describes measures, substances, and materials, both offensive and defensive, that have been found most effective against mosquitoes.
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Public health.
Medicine, Preventive.
yellow fever
breakbone fever
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mosquito remedies
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Nitrogen-fixing bacteria and legumes.
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Nitrogen -- Fixation.
Bacteria, Nitrifying.
Legumes -- Inoculation.
leguminous plants
beneficial bacteria
soil building
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nitrogen fixing
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nitrogen cycle
soil ecology
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Soil and water conservation in the Pacific Northwest.
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Soil erosion -- Northwest, Pacific.
Water conservation -- Northwest, Pacific.
erosion
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irrigation
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Soil-depleting, soil-conserving, and soil-building crops.
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Agricultural conservation -- United States.
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Work of the United States Forest Service.
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Water conservation -- United States -- Audio-visual aids -- Catalogs.
Soil conservation -- Motion pictures -- Catalogs.
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Conservation farming in the Slope-Hettinger Soil Conservation District, North Dakota.
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Reports the results of a soil conservation survey and makes the case for increased conservation efforts. Provides information on identifying land types and suggests simple methods of soil conservation.
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rural planning
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gullies
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eng
Describes the importance of shade trees within city limits, including: how to plan the layout of street trees; the various types of trees best suited for city growth; and how to properly maintain city-grown trees.
35 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Trees.
street trees
shade trees
city trees
planting trees
pruning
stakes
guards
spraying trees
urban landscapes
tree culture
arboriculture
development
forestry
sustainability
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Grass crops in conservation farming.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 2080.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
per
Dale, Tom, 1899-
per
Brown, Grover F., 1905-
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1955-05
2008
eng
Describes the success of grassland improvement methods as demonstrated by experiment stations, agricultural technicians, farmers, and ranchers.
ii, 22 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Agricultural conservation.
Grasses.
soil conservation
water conservation
grass crops
conservation farming
grazing lands
permanent agriculture
grasslands
sustainability
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Managing farm fields, wetlands, and waters for wild ducks in the South.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 2144.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
per
Davison, Verne E. (Verne Elbert), 1904-
per
Neely, William W., 1915-
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1959-11
2008-05-22
eng
Provides instructions for establishing ponds and marshes in order to attract wild ducks to farmlands. Discusses the recreational benefits of watching and hunting ducks.
[ii], 14 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Ducks.
Ducks -- Feeding and feeds.
Farm ponds -- Southern States.
Game bird management -- Southern States.
duckponds
reservoirs
brackish-water
marshes
woodlands
rice fields
cattails
hunting
grazing
wetlands
duck ponds
biodiversity
land use
conservation
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Use the land and save the soil.
Program aid (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 71.
per
Musser, R. H.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service
1949-09
2008-05-22
eng
This bulletin briefly answers the questions: "What is soil and water conservation?" and "How does the Soil Conservation Service help farmers and landowners?"
16 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Erosion.
Soil conservation.
land use
erosion
soil
rural planning
permanent vegetation
crop rotation
land use
ATOZ
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Your soil, crumbly or cloddy?
Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 328.
per
O'Neal, A. M. (Alfred Moore), b. 1881.
per
Klingebiel, A. A.
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1952-08
2008
eng
Describes the importance of good soil tilth and methods for improving soil.
8 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Soils -- Aggregation.
Soil physics.
crop rotation
soil tilth
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Wood chips for the land.
Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 323.
per
McIntyre, Arthur Clifton, 1894-
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1952-06
2008
eng
Describes how farmers and ranchers can use wood chips to prevent soil erosion, as bedding for livestock, and as a way to make soil richer for producing crops.
8 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Wood chips.
Soil conservation.
Wood chips as soil amendments.
Chippers (Woodworking machinery)
Livestock -- Housing.
livestock bedding
woodchipper
woodchipping machines
wood chipper
farm machinery
mulch
soil improvement
erosion
land use
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Contour-furrow irrigation.
Contour furrow irrigation
per
Kohler, Karl O.
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1953-09
2008
eng
Describes how farmers can use contour-furrow irrigation as a means of preventing soil erosion and maintaining even watering of crops.
8 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Irrigation farming.
Furrow irrigation.
Contour farming.
irrigation
erosion
land use
soil conservation
ATOZ
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"Issued September 1953"--P. 8.
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From the dust of the earth.
Agriculture information bulletin ; no. 78.
per
Lathrop, William H., 1900-
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1952-03
2008
eng
Describes how the things people enjoy in everyday life come from the soil, either directly or indirectly, and the value of participating in soil conservation.
15 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Soil conservation.
erosion
food security
soil
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
soil conservation district
farm planner
land use
ATOZ
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"Issued March 1952"--P. [4] of cover.
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Planting the roadside.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 1481.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
per
Mulford, Furman Lloyd, b. 1869.
org
United States. Bureau of Plant Industry.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1926-06
2008
eng
Describes the benefits of planting trees and shrubs on the roadside, and the proper procedures for doing so.
ii, 36 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Roadside improvement.
landscaping
trees
arboriculture
forestry
development
ATOZ
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UNTGD
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"Issued June, 1926"--p. ii.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Game management on the farm.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 1759.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
per
Darling, Jay N. (Jay Norwood), 1876-1962.
per
Sheldon, H. P.
per
Gabrielson, Ira Noel, 1889-
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
per
Darling, Jay N. (Jay Norwood), 1876-1962.
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1936-10
2008
eng
Describes ways that a farmer can support game on his land to make the best use of otherwise wasted land. Provides an overview of practical game management practices.
ii, 22 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Wildlife management.
game management
hunting
land use
biodiversity
conservation
wildlife habitats
ATOZ
ESDC
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UNTGD
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"Issued October 1936"--p. ii.
Illustrations by J. N. Darling; technical drawings by Soil Conservation Service.
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Tree planting on rural school grounds.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 134.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
per
Hall, William L. (William Logan), 1873-
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1901
2008-11
eng
Discusses the importance of planning for successful Arbor-Day tree plantings on rural school grounds and churchyards. Includes suggested study topics for teachers to use in school lessons.
38 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Tree planting.
Schools -- Landscape architecture.
Arbor Day.
Trees -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
horticulture
arboriculture
gardening
landscaping
tree care
school children
curriculum
rural planning
soil composition
ecology
school gardens
school grounds
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Contents: Introduction -- Reasons for school-ground planting -- Arbor Day and school-ground planting -- Preliminary arrangements for planting -- What planting to do -- Kinds of trees to plant -- Obtaining the trees -- How to plant the trees -- Why trees die in transplanting -- Care of trees after planting -- Studies for the teacher and school -- Facts about trees.
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Rural planning : the social aspects of recreation places.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 1388.
per
Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1924
2008
eng
Describes the trend toward establishing planned recreation areas in rural communities, and the economic and social benefits they provide to farmers.
ii, 30 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Civic improvement.
Community centers.
parks
rural communities
recreation places
picnic grounds
civic planning
development
parklands
United States - North Dakota
United States - Wisconsin
United States - Kansas
United States - South Dakota
United States - Minnesota
United States - Michigan
United States - Washington
United States - West Virginia
United States - California
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Making land produce useful wildlife.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 2035.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
per
Anderson, Wallace Lowell, 1913-
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1969
2008
eng
Discusses the benefits of biological balance on ranches and farms. Describes ways to allow wildlife to flourish for the purposes of hunting, trapping, fishing and other recreation.
29 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Wildlife management.
woodlands
rangeland
wildlife habitat
ponds
biodiversity
land use
ecology
ATOZ
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Legislation in the 109th Congress
per
Sissine, Fred
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington, D.C.
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2006-06-02
2006-07-07
eng
This report reviews the status of energy efficiency and renewable energy legislation introduced during the 109th Congress. Action in the second session has focused on appropriations bills; the first session focused on omnibus energy policy bill H.R. 6, H.R. 3, and several appropriations bills. For each bill listed in this report, a brief description and a summary of action are given, including references to committee hearings and reports. Also, a selected list of hearings on renewable energy is included. This report supplements the tracking of issues that appear in CRS Issue Brief IB10020 and CRS Issue Brief IB10041.
Energy
Energy efficiency - Law and legislation
Alternative energy sources - Law and legislation
CRSR
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Climate Change Legislation in the 109th Congress
per
Yacobucci, Brent D.
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington, D.C.
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2006-08-04
2006-08-31
eng
Climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are a continuing issue in the 109th Congress. Bills directly addressing climate change issues range from those focused primarily on climate change research to comprehensive emissions cap-and-trade programs. Additional bills focus on GHG reporting and registries, or on power plant emissions of carbon dioxide, as part of wider controls on pollutant emissions. The bills vary in their approaches to climate change issues. This report briefly discusses the basic concepts on which these bills are based and compares major provisions of the bills in each of the following categories: climate change research, technology deployment, GHG reporting and registries, and emissions reduction programs.
Air pollution
Environmental protection
Congress
climate change
environmental policy
environmental law
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Global Climate Change and Wildlife
per
Sheikh, Pervaze A.
per
Corn, M. Lynne
per
Leggett, Jane A.
per
Folger, Peter
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington, D.C.
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2008-05-15
2008-06-18
eng
Recently projected climate changes could have widespread effects on wildlife species. These effects might be positive or negative, depending on the species. Some effects might include extinction, range shifts, mismatches in phenology (timing of pollination, flowering, etc.), and population changes. If the effects of climate change are widespread, there is uncertainty on how wildlife will adapt. Some suggest that evolution and migration will enable species to adapt, whereas others contend that adaptation will be minimal because of limited habitat, and changes in climate that may occur may rapidly than adaptation can respond.
Air pollution
Climatic changes
Global warming
Global climate change
Science policy
Evolution
Animals
Extinction (Biology)
Animal migration
biodiversity
CRSR
ESDC
UNTGD
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Global Climate Change: Status of Negotiations
per
Fletcher, Susan R.
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington, D.C.
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2008-06-17
2008-06-23
eng
In December 2007, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held their 13th annual meeting in Bali, Indonesia, and began the process of working toward an agreement/treaty that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC when it expires in 2012. The Protocol includes a mandate for a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 developed/industrialized nations to an average of some 5% below their 1990 levels over the commitment period 2008-2012. The broad array of these issues, briefly discussed in this report, has been described by some as comprising perhaps the most complex negotiations ever undertaken internationally.
Air pollution
Environmental protection
Environmental law and legislation
Global climate change
Greenhouse gases
International affairs
Negotiations
Treaties
International organization
environmental policy
CRSR
ESDC
UNTGD
text
text
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Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
per
Leggett, Jane A.
per
Logan, Jeffrey
org
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Washington, D.C.
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
2008-10-17
2008-10-27
eng
At least one recent report and numerous news articles suggest that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are rising more rapidly than expected. While CO2 emissions associated with human activities continue to rise -- and may be worthy of alarm because of their influence on climate change -- any short-term comparisons between actual emissions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios miss the mark. This report analyzes this issue and the issues associated with IPCC scenarios and trajectories. It also describes the importance of monitoring CO2 emissions and analyzing the factors and forces behind increasing CO2 emissions.
6 pages.
Air pollution
Carbon dioxide
Greenhouse gases
Global climate change
emissions
CRSR
ESDC
UNTGD
text
text
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The what and why of agricultural experiment stations.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 1.
O.E.S. doc. ; 16.
O.E.S. document (United States. Office of Experiment Stations) ; 16.
org
United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1889
2008-12-15
eng
A summary of the purpose, origins, and work of the agricultural experiment stations in the United States.
16 p. ; 23 cm.
Agricultural experiment stations.
Agricultural experiment stations -- Directories.
farming experiments
agricultural experiments
agricultural research
farming research
ATOZ
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"...the first of a series, the object of which is to give information about the experiment stations and their work, by collating results bearing upon special topics and putting them into brief, practical form for farmers and others to read."--P. 2.
Includes appendix: "List of agricultural experiment stations in the United States, with names of directors and addresses."
"June, 1889."
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Meadows and pastures : formation and cultivation in the middle eastern states.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 66.
Agrostology [publication] (United States. Division of Agrostology) ; 22.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
per
Smith, Jared G. (Jared Gage), 1866-1957.
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United States. Division of Agrostology.
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Lamson-Scribner, F.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1899
2008-12-15
eng
A guide to the cultivation and selection of varieties of hay, pasture grasses, and clover. Describes the use grass as a soil builder and provides methods of soil improvement.
28 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Meadows -- Middle Atlantic States.
Pastures -- Middle Atlantic States.
Meadows -- South Atlantic States.
Pastures -- South Atlantic States.
Grasses -- Seeds.
Clover.
Hay.
grasses
agrostology
grasslands
soil improvement
sustainability
soil conservation
United States
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Contents: Introductory -- Grasses as soil builders -- Grasses and clovers profitable crops -- Fertilizers for grass lands -- Methods of preparing the soil -- Sowing the seed -- Varieties of grasses and clovers to plant -- Some grass mixtures.
Listed in February 1899 Monthly catalog, p. 136.
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Algae in water supplies: an illustrated manual on the identification, significance, and control of algae in water supplies.
Algae in water supplies
Public Health Service publication ; no. 657.
per
Palmer, Charles Mervin, 1900-
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United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.
org
United States. Public Health Service.
org
United States. Public Health Service. Bureau of State Services.
org
United States. Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control.
org
Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center.
per
Tarzwell, Clarence M. (Clarence Mathew), 1907-
per
Walter, Harold J.
org
United States. Government Printing Office.
Cincinnati, Ohio
U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Bureau of State Services, Division of Water Pollution Control
1959
2005-02-02
eng
A manual designed to help "water analysts and others who deal with the many problems and effects associated with the presence of algae in water supplies."
viii, 88 p. : ill. (some color) ; 31 cm.
Algae.
Algae -- Economic aspects.
Water -- Pollution.
Water supply.
water quality
environmental health
aquatic organisms
drinking water
algae blooms
water issues
freshwater
ecology
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Includes glossary, bibliography (p. 81-84), and genus and species index.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Significance of algae in water supplies -- 3. Identification of algae -- 4. Taste and odor algae -- 5. Filter clogging algae -- 6. Polluted water algae -- 7. Clean water algae -- 8. Plankton and other surface water algae -- 9. Algae attached to reservoir walls -- 10. Additional problems caused by algae in water supplies -- 11. Additional uses for algae found in water supplies -- 12. Procedures for enumeration of algae in water -- 13. Control of algae -- Appendix.
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Shrubs for wildlife on farms in the Southeast.
Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 200.
Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
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Davison, Verne E. (Verne Elbert), 1904-
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
org
United States. Government Printing Office.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1940
2009
eng
Describes the use of shrubs on farms to protect useful or beneficial wildlife and to prevent soil erosion.
[7] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Shrubs.
Windbreaks, shelterbelts, etc.
Soil conservation.
Wildlife conservation.
shrubs
wildlife borders
erosion control
biodiversity
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It could happen again.
Program aid (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 51.
Program aid (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
org
United States. Government Printing Office.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1948-06
2009-07
eng
Describes the importance of soil conservation practices and their effect on wheat production.
[6] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Soil conservation -- United States.
Soil erosion -- United States.
Agricultural conservation -- United States.
soil erosion
soil blowing
Agricultural Conservation Program
wheat production
conservation practices
wind erosion
land use
land-cover change
dust bowl
agriculture
land management
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What are we aiming at? : a forest conservation program.
Agriculture information series ; 10.
Agriculture information series
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
org
United States. Forest Service.
org
United States. Government Printing Office.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1945-7
2009-08-14
eng
Describes the need for a postwar program to increase timber production. Discusses the need for regulated conservation practices, incentives for responsible private forest management, and an increase in public forest land area.
12 p. : tables ; 18 cm.
Forest conservation -- United States.
forestry
conservation
forest management
commercial forest land
timber
work program
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"Issued July 1945"--P. 2.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Forest and flame in the Bible.
Program Aid (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 93.
Program Aid (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
Bible. English.
per
Vitas, George.
org
United States. Forest Service.
org
Texas Forest Service.
org
Advertising Council
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1950
2009
eng
A collection of biblical passages supporting the protection of forests, with descriptive text provided by the author.
15 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Nature in the Bible.
Trees in literature.
Bible verses
scripture
religion and state
forest protection
forest fires
environmental protection
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"A Program Aid of the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign sponsored by The Advertising Council, state foresters, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service--PA-93"--p. 3.
Includes material previously published in "Forests and forest devastation in the Bible" (U.S. Forest Service), and "Trees and the Bible" (Texas Forest Service).
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Managing the small forest
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) no. 1989.
Farmers' bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture)
org
United States. Forest Service.
org
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
org
United States. Extension Service.
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
org
United States. Government Printing Office.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1957-09
2009
eng
A guide to the basic principles of forest management, for use by small forest owners.
ii, 61 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Forest management.
Lumber -- Marketing.
forestry
silviculture
silviculture
lumber
growing trees
timber
farm woodlands
small forest
land use
land-cover change
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Originally issued May 1947; slightly revised September 1957.
Contents: Introduction -- Silviculture, growing and tending the forest -- Planting trees -- Planting trees -- Protecting the small forest -- Measuring the forest -- Cutting the timber crop -- Selling forest products.
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Taming runaway waters
Agriculture information bulletin ; no. 16
Agriculture information bulletin
per
Gee, C. W. (Chester Wilson), 1904-
org
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
org
United States. Government Printing Office.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1949-11
eng
Describes the damage caused and the economic impact of floods and fast-moving water. Discusses the role of soil and water management programs in flood control.
16 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Flood control.
watersheds
floods
flood damage
soil conservation
erosion
flood control
conservation farming
Omnibus Flood Control Act
watershed farming
flood erosion
land-cover change
sustainability
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"Issued November 1949"--p. 16.
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Trends in Emissions of Ozone-Depleting Substances, Ozone Layer Recovery, and Implications for Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.4, November 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
US Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
per
Ravishankara, A.R.
per
Kurylo, Michael J.
per
Ennis, Christine A.
Washington, DC
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2008-11
eng
This Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP 2.4) focuses on the Climate models. Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer by human-produced ozone-depleting substances has been recognized as a global environmental issue for more than three decades, and the international effort to address the issue via the United Nations Montreal Protocol marked its 20-year anniversary in 2007. Scientific understanding underpinned the Protocol at its inception and ever since. As scientific knowledge advanced and evolved, the Protocol evolved through amendment and adjustment. Policy-relevant science has documented the rise, and now the beginning decline, of the atmospheric abundances of many ozone-depleting substances in response to actions taken by the nations of the world. Projections are for a return of ozone-depleting chemicals (compounds containing chlorine and bromine) to their "pre-ozone-depletion" (pre-1980) levels by the middle of this century for the midlatitudes; the polar regions are expected to follow suit within 20 years after that. Since the 1980s, global ozone sustained a depletion of about 5 percent in the midlatitudes of both the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere, where most of the Earth's population resides; it is now showing signs of turning the corner towards increasing ozone. The large seasonal depletions in the polar regions are likely to continue over the next decade but are expected to subside over the next few decades.
233 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
climate variability
Ozone
Greenhouse Gas
radiation
emissions
ESDC
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This Synthesis and Assessment Product, described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan, was prepared in accordance with Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554) and the information quality act guidelines issued by the Department of Commerce and NOAA pursuant to Section 515 <http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/iq.htm>.
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Climate Projections Based on Emissions Scenarios for Long-Lived and Short-Lived Radiatively Active Gases and Aerosols
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.2, September 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
per
Levy, Hiram
per
Shindell, Drew
per
Gilliland, Alice
per
Horowitz, Larry W.
per
Schwarzkopf, M. Daniel
Science Editor
per
Waple, Anne M.
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2008-09
eng
This report focuses on the Climate Projections Based on Emissions Scenarios. The influence of greenhouse gases and particle pollution on our present and future climate has been widely examined. While both long-lived (e.g., carbon dioxide) and short-lived (e.g., soot) gases and particles affect the climate, other projections of future climate, such as the IPCC reports focus largely on the long-lived gases. This U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product provides a different emphasis. The authors examine the effect of long-lived greenhouse gases on the global climate based on updated emissions scenarios produced by another CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP 2.1a). In these scenarios, atmospheric concentrations of the long-lived greenhouse gases leveled off, or stabilized, at predetermined levels by the end of the twenty-first century (unlike in the IPCC scenarios). However, the projected future temperature changes fall within the same range as those projected for the latest IPCC report. The authors confirm the robust future warming signature and other associated changes in the climate.
xii, 98 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
climate variability
weather
Greenhouse Gas
Simplified Global Climate Model (MAGICC)
emissions
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Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.3, January 2009
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
per
Chin, Mian
per
Schwartz, Stephen E.
per
Kahn, Ralph A.
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2009-01
eng
This report critically reviews current knowledge about global distributions and properties of atmospheric aerosols as they relate to aerosol impacts on climate. It assesses possible steps to substantially reduce uncertainties in aerosol radiative forcing estimates.
vi, 115 p. : col. ill.
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climate variability
atmosphere
Remote Sensing
Aerosols
climate change
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Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.1, January 2009
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Coordinating Lead Author
per
Titus, James G.
per
Anderson, K. Eric
per
Cahoon, Donald R.
per
Gesch, Dean B.
per
Gill, Stephen K.
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Gutierrez, Benjamin T.
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Thieler, E. Robert
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Williams,S.Jeffress
Washington, DC, USA
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2009-01
eng
This document is part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. The U.S. Government's CCSP is responsible for providing the best science-based knowledge possible to inform management of the risks and opportunities associated with changes in the climate and related environmental systems. To support its mission, the CCSP has commissioned 21 "synthesis and assessment products" (SAPs) to advance decision making on climate change-related issues by providing current evaluations of climate change science and identifying priorities for research, observation, and decision support. This Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP), developed as part of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, examines potential effects of sea-level rise from climate change during the twenty-first century, with a focus on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. Using scientific literature and policy-related documents, the SAP describes the physical environments; potential changes to coastal environments, wetlands, and vulnerable species; societal impacts and implications of sea-level rise; decisions that may be sensitive to sea-level rise; opportunities for adaptation; and institutional barriers to adaptation.
xvi, 298 p. : col. ill.
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climate variability
climate change
Sea-level rise
Coastal elevations
Ocean coasts
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Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.1, July 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
org
Climate Change Science Program (U.S.). Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
per
Bader, David C.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
per
Covey, Curt
Iowa State University
per
Gutowski, William J.
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
per
Held, Isaac M.
Illinois State Water Survey
per
Kunkel, Kenneth E.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
per
Miller, Ronald L.
Naval Postgraduate School
per
Tokmakian, Robin T.
State University of New York Stony Brook
per
Zhang, Minghua H.
Washington D.C.
Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
2008-07
2009-08-09
eng
This Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP 3.1) focuses on the Climate models. Scientists extensively use mathematical models of Earth's climate, executed on the most powerful computers available, to examine hypotheses about past and present-day climates. Development of climate models is fully consistent with approaches being taken in many other fields of science dealing with very complex systems. These climate simulations provide a framework within which enhanced understanding of climate-relevant processes, along with improved observations, are merged into coherent projections of future climate change. This report describes the models and their ability to simulate current climate.
vi, 124 p. : col. ill.
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Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.2, January 2009
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
USGS
per
Fagre, Daniel B.
USGS
per
Charles, Colleen W.
USGS
per
Allen, Craig D.
USGS-University of Hawaii
per
Birkeland, Charles
University of Alaska
per
Chapin, F. Stuart
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
per
Groffman, Peter M.
USGS
per
Guntenspergen, Glenn R.
Colorado State University;
per
Knapp, Alan K.
USGS-University of Alaska
per
McGuire, A. David
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
per
Mulholland, Patrick J.
USDA Agricultural Research Service
per
Peters, Debra P.C.
USGS-Oregon State University
per
Roby, Daniel D.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography and University of California at San Diego
per
Sugihara, George
Washington, DC
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2009-01
eng
This Report (SAP 4.2) focuses on the thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems. As defined in this Synthesis and Assessment Report, 'an ecological threshold is the point at which there is an abrupt change in an ecosystem quality, property, or phenomenon, or where small changes in one or more external conditions produce large and persistent responses in an ecosystem'.Ecological thresholds occur when external factors, positive feedbacks, or nonlinear instabilities in a system cause changes to propagate in a domino-like fashion that is potentially irreversible. This report reviews threshold changes in North American ecosystems that are potentially induced by climatic change and addresses the significant challenges these threshold crossings impose on resource and land managers. Sudden changes to ecosystems and the goods and services they provide are not well understood, but they are extremely important if natural resource managers are to succeed in developing adaptation strategies in a changing world. The report provides an overview of what is known about ecological thresholds and where they are likely to occur. It also identifies those areas where research is most needed to improve knowledge and understand the uncertainties regarding them. The report suggests a suite of potential actions that land and resource managers could use to improve the likelihood of success for the resources they manage, even under conditions of incomplete understanding of what drives thresholds of change and when changes will occur.
xiii, 157 p. : col. ill.
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climate variability
climate change
ecosystems
environmental change
human contributions and responses
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Section 515, this CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Product is an "interpreted product" as that term is used in U.S. Geological Survey guidelines and is classified as "highly influential". This document does not express any regulatory policies of the United States or any of its agencies, or provide recommendations for regulatory action.
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Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.3, June 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
per
Karl, Thomas R.
per
Meehl, Gerald A.
per
Miller, Christopher D.
per
Hassol, Susan J.
per
Waple, Anne M.
per
Murray, William L.
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2008-06
eng
This document is part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. Changes in extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts and are among the most serious challenges to society in coping with a changing climate. This Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP 3.3) focuses on weather and climate extremes in a changing climate. Many extremes and their associated impacts are now changing. For example, in recent decades most of North America has been experiencing more unusually hot days and nights, fewer unusually cold days and nights, and fewer frost days. Heavy downpours have become more frequent and intense. Droughts are becoming more severe in some regions, though there are no clear trends for North America as a whole. The power and frequency of Atlantic hurricanes have increased substantially in recent decades, though North American mainland land-falling hurricanes do not appear to have increased over the past century. Outside the tropics, storm tracks are shifting northward and the strongest storms are becoming even stronger. It is well established through formal attribution studies that the global warming of the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced increases in heat-trapping gases. Such studies have only recently been used to determine the causes of some changes in extremes at the scale of a continent. Certain aspects of observed increases in temperature extremes have been linked to human influences. The increase in heavy precipitation events is associated with an increase in water vapor, and the latter has been attributed to human-induced warming. No formal attribution studies for changes in drought severity in North America have been attempted. There is evidence suggesting a human contribution to recent changes in hurricane activity as well as in storms outside the tropics, though a confident assessment will require further study.
x, 162 p. : col. ill.
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climate variability
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Tropical Storm
Tropical Cyclones
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The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.2, Novermber 2007
Synthesis and Assessment Product
The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR)
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
Lead
per
King, Anthony W.
Co-Lead
per
Dilling, Lisa
Project Coordinator
per
Zimmerman, Gregory P.
per
Fairman, David M.
per
Houghton, Richard A.
per
Marland, Gregg
per
Rose, Adam Z.
per
Wilbanks Thomas J.
Asheville, NC, USA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center
2007-11
eng
A primary objective of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is to provide the best possible scientific information to support public discussion, as well as government and private sector decision making, on key climate-related issues. To help meet this objective, the CCSP has identified an initial set of 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAPs) that address its highest priority research, observation, and decision support needs. This report-CCSP SAP 2.2-addresses Goal 2 of the CCSP Strategic Plan: Improve quantification of the forces bringing about changes in the Earth's climate and related systems. The report provides a synthesis and integration of the current knowledge of the North American carbon budget and its context within the global carbon cycle. In a format useful to decision makers, it (1) summarizes our knowledge of carbon cycle properties and changes relevant to the contributions of and impacts upon North America and the rest of the world, and (2) provides scientific information for decision support focused on key issues for carbon management and policy. Consequently, this report is aimed at both the decision-maker audience and to the expert scientific and stakeholder communities.
xii, 240 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
climate variability
land resources
water
Carbon cycle
Coastal Oceans
North America
emissions
waste management
energy
environmental management
ESDC
UNT
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Abrupt Climate Change: Final Report
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.4
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
US Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Lead Agency
org
U. S. Geological Survey
Columbia University
per
Cook, Edward R.
Oregon State University
per
Brook, Edward
NOAA
per
Delworth, Thomas L.
coordinating lead author, University of Victoria
per
Weaver, Andrew J.
Contributing Agencies
org
National Science Foundation
Contributing Agencies
org
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
coordinating lead author, Oregon State University
per
Clark, Peter U.
University of Colorado
per
Steffen, Konrad
Reston, VA, USA
U.S. Geological Survey
2008-[12]
eng
This document is part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAP) described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. This report is meant to reduce uncertainty in projections of how the Earth's climate and related systems may change in the future. It provides scientific information for supporting the decision-making audience and the expert scientific and stakeholder community.
xvii, 459 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
Agriculture
land resources
climate variability
forests
arid lands
water quality
Biodiversity
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UNT
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Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.1a, July 2007
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
per
Clarke, Leon E.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
per
Edmonds, James A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
per
Jacoby, Henry D.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
per
Pitcher, Hugh M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
per
Reilly, John M.
Electric Power Research Institute
per
Richels, Richard G.
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2007
eng
This and a companion report constitute one of twenty-one Synthesis and Assessment Products called for in the Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. These studies are structured to provide high-level, integrated research results on important science issues with a particular focus on questions raised by decision-makers on dimensions of climate change directly relevant to the U.S. One element of the CCSP's strategic vision is to provide decision support tools for differentiating and evaluating response strategies. Scenario-based analysis is one such tool. The scenarios in this report explore the implications of alternative stabilization levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, and they explicitly consider the economic and technological foundations of such response options. Such scenarios are a valuable complement to other scientific research contained in the twenty-one CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products. The companion to the research reported here, Global-Change Scenarios: Their Development and Use, explores the broader strategic frame for developing and utilizing scenarios in support of climate decision making.
154 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
climate variability
Greenhouse Gas
Carbon cycle
North America
radiation
ESDC
UNT
text_book
text
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This document does not express any regulatory policies of the United States or any of its agencies, or provide recommendations for regulatory action. Further information on the process for preparing Synthesis and Assessment products and the CCSP itself can be found at www.climatescience.gov.
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Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System: Issues related to hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons
A Special Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)/ TEAP, 2005
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
per
Metz, Bert
per
Solomon, Susan
per
Kuijpers, Lambert
per
Andersen, Stephen O.
per
Davidson, Ogunlade
per
Pons, José
per
de Jager, David
per
Kestin, Tahl
per
Manning, Martin
per
Meyer, Leo
http://www.cambridge.org/features/earth_environmental/climatechange/
Cambridge, England
Cambridge University Press
2005
eng
This Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone and the Global Climate System has been developed in response to invitations from Parties to the UNFCCC and the Montreal Protocol. It provides information relevant to decision-making in regard to safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system: two global environmental issues involving complex scientific and technical considerations.
x, 478 p. : ill. (some col.)
Environmental change
stratosphere ozone
Ozone in the atmosphere
emissions scenarios
Climate Variability
ozone depletion
Medical Aerosols
ESDC
UNT
text_book
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Toxic Substances Control Act
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
eng
The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 provides EPA with authority to require reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures. Certain substances are generally excluded from TSCA, including, among others, food, drugs, cosmetics and pesticides.
TSCA addresses the production, importation, use, and disposal of specific chemicals including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos, radon and lead-based paint.
106 p.
environmental policy
toxic substances regulation
hazardous material regulation
United States
ESDC
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Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry
A Special Report of IPCC Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers
org
Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
per
Watson, Robert T.
per
Verardo, David J.
Washington, DC, USA
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2000
eng
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (SR-LULUCF) has been prepared in response to a request from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). At its eighth session in Bonn, Germany, 2-12 Ju and technical implications of carbon sequestration strategies related to land use, land-use change, and forestry activities. The scope, structure, and outline of this Special Report was approved by the IPCC in plenary meetings during its Fourteenth Session. This Special Report examines several key questions relating to the exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and the terrestrial pool of aboveground biomass, below-ground biomass, and soils. Vegetation exchanges carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere through photosynthesis and plant and soil respiration. This natural exchange has been occurring for hundreds of millions of years. Humans are changing the natural rate of exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere through land use, land-use change, and forestry activities. The aim of the SR-LULUCF is to assist the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol by providing relevant scientific and technical information to describe how the global carbon cycle operates and what the broad-scale opportunities and implications of ARD and additional human-induced activities are, now and in the future. This Special Report also identifies questions that Parties to the Protocol may wish to consider regarding definitions and accounting rules.
viii, 24 p. : ill. (some col.)
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Carbon Accounting
emissions scenarios
Climate Variability
Forests
Kyoto Protocol
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change, and forestry activities and their relationship to the Kyoto Protocol.
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Assessment of Knowledge on Impacts of Climate Change - Contribution to the Specification of Art. 2 of the UNFCCC: Impacts on Ecosystems, Food Production, Water and Socio-economic Systems
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
per
Hare, William
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Berlin, Germany
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen
2003-11
eng
ger
The purpose of this report is to compile and summarise the present knowledge on impacts of climate change as a basis for a consideration of what may constitute dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system under Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). An attempt will be made to associate projected global mean surface temperature and/or sea level changes with specific identified impacts and effects in order to assist a discussion on the operationalization of Article 2. The main emphasis will be on ecosystem effects, food production, water resources, and sustainable development.
106 p.
Climate Variability and Change
Ecosystems
Biodiversity
Socio-Economics
Agriculture
ESDC
UNT
text
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Emissions Scenarios
A Special Report of IPCC Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers
org
Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Co-chair of Working Group III
per
Davidson, Ogunlade
Co-chair of Working Group III
per
Metz, Bert
Washington, DC, USA
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2000
eng
This Report describes climate change scenarios that extend to the end of the 21st century and how they were developed. The scenarios cover a wide range of the main driving forces of future emissions, from demographic to technological and economic developments. The set of emissions scenarios is based on an extensive assessment of the literature, six alternative modeling approaches, and an "open process" that solicited wide participation and feedback from many groups and individuals. The SRES scenarios include the range of emissions of all relevant species of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and sulfur and their driving forces.
[viii], 21 p. : ill. (some col.)
environmental change
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WMO Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 1995
Geneva, Switzerland
org
World Meteorological Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
World Meteorological Organization
1995
eng
There is continuing international concern about global warming and its potential to cause serious disruption to vulnerable social and economic sectors of society as well as to sustainable development efforts. As recently as December 1995, scientists of the World
Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme (WMO/UNEP) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate", through emissions of greenhouse gases. At the same time, there is a developing capability within national Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) to provide comprehensive information on past, present, and future (seasons to a year ahead) climate and its variations, to a wide spectrum of users. The rapid development of global communications systems means that such information can be provided on a timely basis and is, therefore, of great use to national decision makers.
Climate Variability and Change
Atmospheric Composition
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Science Perspectives on the CCSP Strategic Plan
http://www.climatescience.gov
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U.S. Climate Change Science Program
President, National Academy of Sciences
Alberts, Bruce
President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
per
Anthes, Richard
Chairman, Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Academy of Sciences
per
Barron, Eric J.
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
per
Clark, William C.
College of Forest Resources, North Carolina State University
per
Cowling, Ellis B.
American Meteorological Society
per
Hallgren, Richard
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
per
Jacoby, Henry
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
per
Kennel, Charles F.
Director, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire
per
Moore, Berrien
Former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
per
Riley, William K.
Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
per
Turekian, Karl
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Washington, DC
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2003
eng
Scientists offer comments on the Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan
5 p.
Climate Variability and Change
Human Contributions and Responses
Decision-Support Resources
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Constitution of the People's Republic of China (excerpts of envivonment-related articles)
org
National People's Congress
No.115 Xizhimennei Nanxiaojie, Beijing
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
1999-03-15
eng
Excerpts of envivonment-related articles in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.
2 p.
Constitution of the People's Republic of China
laws and regulations
environmental policy
China
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text
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Federal Water Pollution Control Act
org
United States. Congress. House
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
2002-11-27
eng
The Clean Water Act (CWA) establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. The basis of the CWA was enacted in 1948 and was called the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, but the Act was significantly reorganized and expanded in 1972. "Clean Water Act" became the Act's common name with amendments in 1977.
Under the CWA, EPA has implemented pollution control programs such as setting wastewater standards for industry. We have also set water quality standards for all contaminants in surface waters.
The CWA made it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters, unless a permit was obtained. EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program controls discharges. Point sources are discrete conveyances such as pipes or man-made ditches. Individual homes that are connected to a municipal system, use a septic system, or do not have a surface discharge do not need an NPDES permit; however, industrial, municipal, and other facilities must obtain permits if their discharges go directly to surface waters.
234 p.
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Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4, June 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
per
Julius, Susan Herrod
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
per
West, Jordan M.
U.S. Geological Survey and Colorado State University
per
Baron, Jill S.
U.S.D.A. Forest Service
per
Joyce, Linda A.
The Nature Conservancy
per
Kareiva, Peter
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
per
Keller, Brian D.
University of Maryland
per
Palmer, Margaret
University of North Carolina
per
Peterson, Charles
U.S. Geological Survey and University of Idaho
per
Scott, J. Michael
U.S. Geological Survey
per
Griffith, Brad
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2008-06
eng
The U.S. Government's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is responsible for providing the best science-based knowledge possible to inform management of the risks and opportunities associated with changes in the climate and related environmental systems. To support its mission, the CCSP has commissioned 21 "synthesis and assessment products" (SAPs) to advance decision making on climate change-related issues by providing current evaluations of climate change science and identifying priorities for research, observation, and decision support. This Report-SAP 4.4-focuses on federally managed lands and waters to provide a "Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources." It is one of seven reports that support Goal 4 of the CCSP Strategic Plan to understand the sensitivity and adaptability of different natural and managed ecosystems and human systems to climate and related global changes.
The purpose of SAP 4.4 is to provide useful information on the state of knowledge regarding adaptation options for key, representative ecosystems and resources that may be sensitive to climate variability and change. As its title suggests, this report is a preliminary review, defined as "the process of collecting and reviewing available information about known or potential adaptation options."
ii, 72, 15 p. : col. ill.
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water
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marine ecology
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Decision-Support Experiments and Evaluations using Seasonal-to-Interannual Forecasts and Observational Data: A Focus on Water Resources
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.3, November 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
per
Beller-Simms, Nancy
per
Ingram, Helen
per
Feldman, David
per
Mantua, Nathan
per
Jacobs, Katharine L.
per
Waple, Anne M.
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U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Washington, DC
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2009-01
eng
This Synthesis and Assessment Product focuses on the connection between the scientific ability to predict climate on seasonal scales and the opportunity to incorporate such understanding into water resource management decisions. It directly addresses decision support experiments and evaluations that have used seasonal-to-interannual forecasts and observational data, and is expected to inform (1) decision makers about the relative success of experiences of others who have experimented with these forecasts and data in resource management; (2) climatologists, hydrologists, and social scientists on how to advance the delivery of decision-support resources that use the most recent forecast products, methodologies, and tools; and (3) science and resource managers as they plan for future investments in research related to forecasts and their role in decision support. It is important to note, however, that while the focus of this Product is on the water resources management sector, the findings within this Synthesis and Assessment Product may be directly transferred to other sectors.
xii, 192 p. : col. ill.
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human contributions and responses
climate variability
climate change
water
hydrology
resource mangement
ESDC
UNT
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The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3, May 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
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U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
Convening Lead Author
per
Backlund, Peter
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per
Janetos, Anthony
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per
Schimel, David
Managing Editor
per
Margaret Walsh
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2008-05
eng
This document is a part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan. The report describes how climate affects the design, construction, safety, operations, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure and systems. The prospect of a changing climate raises critical questions regarding how alterations in temperature, precipitation, storm events, and other aspects of the climate could affect the nation's roads, airports, rail, transit systems, pipelines, ports, and waterways. Phase I of this regional assessment of climate change and its potential impacts on transportation systems addresses these questions for the region of the U.S. central Gulf Coast between Galveston, Texas and Mobile, Alabama.
vii, 240 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
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land use
climate variability
forests
arid lands
water
biodiversity
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ecosystems
ESDC
UNT
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The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change: Implications for Natural and Managed Ecosystems
IGBP Science
A Synthesis of GCTE and Related Research
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Science No. 1
per
Walker, Brian
per
Steffen, WIll
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
1997
eng
From the perspective of terrestrial ecosystems, the most important component of global change over the next three or four decades will likely be land-use/cover change. It is driven largely by the need to feed the expanding human population, expected to increase by almost one billion (109) people per decade for the next three decades at least. Much of this increase will occur in developing countries in the low-latitude regions of the world. To meet the associated food demand, crop yields will need to increase, consistently, by over 2% every year through this period. Despite advances in technology, increasing food production must lead to intensification of agriculture in areas which are already cropped, and conversion of forests and grasslands into cropping systems. Much of the latter will occur in semi-arid regions and on lands which are marginally suitable for cultivation, increasing the risk of soil erosion, accelerated water use, and further land degradation.
36 p. : col. ill.
climate variability
ecosystems
carbon cycle
biodiversity
climate change
ESDC
UNT
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Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study, Phase I
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.7, March 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
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U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Federal Highway Administration
per
Savonis, Michael J.
U.S. Geological Survey
per
Burkett, Virginia R.
Cambridge Systematics
per
Potter, Joanne R.
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2008-03
eng
This document, part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. Climate affects the design, construction, safety, operations, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure and systems. The prospect of a changing climate raises critical questions regarding how alterations in temperature, precipitation, storm events, and other aspects of the climate could affect the nation's roads, airports, rail, transit systems, pipelines, ports, and waterways. Phase I of this regional assessment of climate change and its potential impacts on transportation systems addresses these questions for the region of the U.S. central Gulf Coast between Galveston, Texas and Mobile, Alabama. This region contains multimodal transportation infrastructure that is critical to regional and national transportation services. The significance of various climate factors for transportation systems was assessed.
xiv, [445] p. : col. ill.
environmental change
infrastructure
Gulf Coast
climate variability
Tropical Storms
Hurricanes
Sea level rise
Hurricane Katrina
climate change
ESDC
UNT
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Ocean Biogeochemistry and Global Change
IGBP Science
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Science No. 2
http://ijgofs.whoi.edu/
org
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
per
Baliño, Beatriz M.
per
Fasham, Michael J.R.
per
Bowles, Margaret C..
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
1997
eng
From the perspective of terrestrial ecosystems, the most important component of global change over the next three or four decades will likely be land-use/cover change. It is driven largely by the need to feed the expanding human population, expected to increase by almost one billion (109) people per decade for the next three decades at least. Much of this increase will occur in developing countries in the low-latitude regions of the world. To meet the associated food demand, crop yields will need to increase, consistently, by over 2% every year through this period. Despite advances in technology, increasing food production must lead to intensification of agriculture in areas which are already cropped, and conversion of forests and grasslands into cropping systems. Much of the latter will occur in semi-arid regions and on lands which are marginally suitable for cultivation, increasing the risk of soil erosion, accelerated water use, and further land degradation.
32 p.
climate variability and change
biogeochemistry
carbon cycle
oceans
atmospheric composition
ESDC
UNT
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Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Decision Making
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.2, January 2009
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
per
Morgan, Granger
per
Dowlatabadi, Hadi
per
Henrion, Max
per
Keith, David
per
Lempert, Robert
per
McBrid, Sandra
per
Small, Mitchell
per
Wilbanks, Thomas
www.climatescience.gov.
Washington, DC USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2009-01
eng
This report discusses the current state of understanding about the characteristics and implications of uncertainty related to climate change and variability to an audience of policymakers, decision makers, and members of the media and general public with an interest in developing a fundamental understanding of the issue.
v, 96 p. : col. ill.
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decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
climate change
climate variability
ESDC
UNT
text_book
text
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Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study: Science Plan and Implementation Strategy
IGBP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 54
www.atm.helsinki.fi/ileaps
org
Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study
per
Andreae, Meinrat O.
per
Kabat, Pavel
per
Arneth, Almut
per
Reissell, Anni
per
Young, Bill
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2005
eng
The iLEAPS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy defines the scientific objectives and key research issues of the land-atmosphere project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. It also outlines a strategy for addressing the key research questions. The scope of iLEAPS research spans from molecular level processes - such as synthesis of volatile organic compounds in vegetation - to Earth System science issues, climate and global change. iLEAPS research emphasises the importance of connections, feedbacks and teleconnections between the numerous processes in the land-atmosphere interface. Due to the complexity and wide range of scientific issues, iLEAPS stresses the need for increased integrative approaches and collaboration, involving scientists from various disciplines, experimentalists and modellers, and international research projects and programmes.
54 p.
climate variability and change
atmospheric composition
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
biosphere
hydrology
biogeochemistry
global carbon cycle
remote sensing
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12010/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-54.pdf
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NOAA Reports Potent Greenhouse Gas Levels Off
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov
org
NOAA News Online
National
2003-11-17
eng
This document provides a summary of a study by NOAA researchers and National Institute for Space Research in the Netherlands. According to the study, one of the atmosphere's most potent greenhouse gases, methane, may now have leveled off. Scientists aren't sure yet if this "leveling off" is just a temporary pause in two centuries of increase or a new state of equilibrium.
2 p.
Climate Variability and Change
Atmospheric Composition
Human Contributions and Responses
methane
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12014/
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2003/s2122.htm
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dalemneh
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Reanalysis of Historical Climate Data for Key Atmospheric Features: Implications for Attribution of Causes of Observed Chan
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.3
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
per
Randall M. Dole
per
Hoerling, Martin
per
Schubert, Siegfried
Washington, DC
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2008
eng
This Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product addresses current capabilities to integrate observations of the climate system into a consistent description of past and current conditions through the method of reanalysis. In addition, the Product assesses present capabilities to attribute causes for climate variations and trends over North America during the reanalysis period, which extends from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
This Product reviews the strengths and limitations of current atmospheric reanalysis products. It finds that reanalysis data play a crucial role in helping to identify, describe, and understand atmospheric features associated with weather and climate variability, including high-impact events such as major droughts and floods. Reanalysis data play an important role in assessing the ability of climate models to simulate the average climate and its variations. The data also help in identifying deficiencies in representations of physical processes that produce climate model errors.
xiv, 134 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
climate variability
Greenhouse Gas
Carbon cycle
North America
radiation
ESDC
UNT
text_book
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12019/
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This Synthesis and Assessment Product described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan, was prepared in accordance with Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554) and the information quality act guidelines issued by the Department of Commerce and NOAA pursuant to Section 515 <http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/iq.htm>.
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NOAA Makes New Tree Ring Data Available
per
NOAA News
http://www.noaa.gov/
Washington, DC 20230
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2001-10-17
eng
New data from tree rings from 500 sites around the world are now available from NOAA. These data are important because they provide climate scientists and resource managers with records of past climatic variability extending back thousands of years.
2 pages.
Climate Variability and Change
Paleoenvironment & Paleoclimate
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12016/
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s793.htm
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ark:/67531/metadc12016
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Future Climate Change Research and Observations: GCOS, WCRP and IGBP Learning from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
IGBP Report
GCOS Report
WCRP Report
World Trade Organization (WMO)/TD No. 1418
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 58
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) 127
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) 117
Global Climate Observing System
http://www.igbp.net
org
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
http://wcrp.wmo.int/wcrp-index.html
org
World Climate Change Research Programme
http://www.wmo.ch/pages/prog/gcos/index.php
org
Global Climate Observing System
http://www.wmo.int
Geneva, Switzerland
World Meteorological Organization
2008
eng
Learning from the authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and its findings to help guide future strategies for climate change observations and research was the key objective of a workshop organised jointly by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) in Sydney, Australia, 4-6 October 2007.
57 p.
climate variability and change
atmospheric composition
carbon cycle
decision-support resources
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12013/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/Report_58.pdf
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2010-04-08, 11:29:17
False
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NOAA Sets the El Niño Prediction Straight
org
NOAA News
http://www.noaa.gov
Washington, DC 20230
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2001-09-07
eng
El Niño is an abnormal warming of the ocean temperatures across the eastern tropical Pacific that affects weather around the globe. El Niño episodes usually occur approximately every four-five years.
NOAA researchers and scientists are presently monitoring the formation of a possible weak El Niño and predict that the United States could experience very weak-to-marginal impacts late winter to early spring 2002.
2 pages.
Climate Variability and Change
Meteorology
El Niño
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12015/
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s748.htm
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ark:/67531/metadc12015
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A Strategy for Climate Change Stabilization Experiments with AOGCMs and ESMs
Aspen Global Change Institute 2006 Session: Earth System Models: The Next Generation
Aspen Protocol
IGBP Report
WCRP Report
ICPO Publication
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 57
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Informal Report 3/2007
ICPO Publication No. 112
http://www.igbp.net
org
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
http://www.aimes.ucar.edu/
org
Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES)
http://wcrp.wmo.int/wcrp-index.html
org
World Climate Research Programme
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2007-05
eng
This report outlines a strategy for the new AOGCM/ESM modeling components in terms of aerosols/atmospheric chemistry and carbon cycle/dynamic vegetation components that are under development and implementation in ESMs that involves a proposed experimental design that integrates impacts and scenarios (represented in IPCC WG2 and WG3, respectively) and physical climate science (WG1). We summarize with a suite of recommendations for the joint WGCM, AIMES and IPCC communities.
37 p.
climate variability and change
atmospheric composition
carbon cycle
decision-support resources
climate modelling
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12012/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/Report57.pdf
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2010-04-08, 11:28:28
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Science Plan and Implementation Strategy
IGBP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 55
http://www.igbp.net/
org
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
per
Young, Bill
per
Noone, Kevin
per
Steffen, Will
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2006
eng
This Science Plan and Implementation Strategy sets out the research agenda for the second phase of IGBP. The document describes the IGBP strategy for producing high quality, unbiased, credible, fundamental scientific research in the area of global change: a strategy centered on ten projects, to be carried out by the several thousand scientists worldwide who are part of the IGBP network. Further, the document describes how the organization will communicate the results of this research to different audiences, in order to realize its vision: "to provide scientific knowledge to improve the sustainability of the living Earth".
76 p.
climate variability and change
atmospheric composition
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
biosphere
systemic behavior
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12011/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-55.pdf
0284-8105
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ark:/67531/metadc12011
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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False
dalemneh
2010-03-23, 14:55:12
info:ark/67531/metadc12017
2010-10-07T10:52:24Z
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Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.1, April 2006
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
per
Karl, Thomas R.
per
Hassol, Susan J.
per
Miller, Christopher D.
Lead Agency
org
Murray, William L.
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2006-04
eng
This Synthesis and Assessment Product is an important revision to the conclusions of earlier reports from the U.S. National Research Council and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Previously reported discrepancies between the amount of warming near the surface and higher in the atmosphere have been used to challenge the reliability of climate models and the reality of human-induced global warming. Specifically, surface data showed substantial global-average warming, while early versions of satellite and radiosonde data showed little or no warming above the surface. This significant discrepancy no longer exists because errors in the satellite and radiosonde data have been identified and corrected. New data sets have also been developed that do not show such discrepancies.
This Synthesis and Assessment Product is an important revision to the
conclusions of earlier reports from the U.S. National Research Council and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. For recent decades, all
current atmospheric data sets now show global-average warming that is
similar to the surface warming. While these data are consistent with the
results from climate models at the global scale, discrepancies in the tropics
remain to be resolved. Nevertheless, the most recent observational and
model evidence has increased confidence in our understanding of observed
climatic changes and their causes.
xii, 164 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
climate variability
atmosphere
North America
global warming
climate change
ESDC
UNT
text_book
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12017/
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ark:/67531/metadc12017
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nhall
2010-10-07, 10:52:24
False
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2010-03-23T13:53:14Z
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Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics: Implementation Plan
IGBP Report
GLOBEC Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 47
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) Report 13
http://www.globec.org/
org
GLOBEC International Project Office
http://www.igbp.net
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
1999
eng
This document describes plans for the implementation of the Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) programme element of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). This Implementation Plan is an international response to the need to understand how global change, in the broadest sense, will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations comprising a major component of oceanic ecosystems. The Plan describes the consensus view, developed under the auspices of the GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), on the research required to fulfill the scientific goals laid out in the GLOBEC Science Plan (IGBP Report No. 40). The Implementation Plan expands on the Science Plan, drawing on the results and recommendations of workshops, meetings, and reports thereof, that have been sponsored under the auspices of GLOBEC. The GLOBEC research programme has four major components which, are described in detail in this Implementation Plan; the research Foci, Framework Activities, Regional Programmes, and Integrating Activity. These are summarized in the Table of Contents, and in schematic diagrams within the text. They are the elements that have been planned by, and will be implemented under the auspices of, the GLOBEC SSC. National GLOBEC programmes may select those aspects of this international framework which are relevant to meeting national objectives, or they may develop new directions as needed to meet specific national needs.
207 p.
climate variability and change
ecosystems
biodiversity
oceans
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12004/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-47.pdf
0284-8015
1066-7881
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2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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dalemneh
2010-03-23, 13:53:14
info:ark/67531/metadc12009
2010-03-23T14:20:40Z
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Global Land Project: Science Plan and ImplementationStrategy
IGBP Report
IHDP Report
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Report 19
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 53
http://www.globallandproject.org/
org
Global Land Project (GLP)
per
Ojima, Dennis
per
Moran, Emilio
per
McConnell, William
per
Stafford Smith, Mark
per
Laumann, Gregor
per
Morais, João
per
Young, Bill
http://www.igbp.net
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2005-09
eng
The Global Land Project (GLP) Science Plan and Implementation Strategy represents the joint research agenda of IGBP and IHDP to improve the understanding of land system dynamics in the context of Earth System functioning. This plan is therefore a first critical step in addressing the interaction between people and their environments. It is part of the broader efforts to understand how these interactions have affected, and may yet affect, the sustainability of the terrestrial biosphere, and the two-way interactions and feedbacks between different land systems within the Earth System. GLP will play a clear role in improving the understanding of regional and global-scale land systems, as well as promoting strong scientific synergy across the global change programmes. This Science Plan and Implementation Strategy develops a new integrated paradigm focused on two main conceptual aspects of the coupled system: firstly, it deals with the interface between people, biota, and natural resources of terrestrial systems, and secondly, it combines detailed regional studies with a global, comparative perspective. GLP takes as its points of departure ecosystem services and human decision making for the terrestrial environment. These topics are at the interface of the societal and the environmental domains, and serve as conceptual lenses for the research plan.
64 p.
climate variability and change
land use
land cover change
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12009/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-53.pdf
0284-8105
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2010-03-23, 14:20:40
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info:ark/67531/metadc12006
2010-03-23T14:07:15Z
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Global Change and Mountain Regions: The Mountain Research Initiative
IGBP Report
GTOS Report
IHDP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 49
Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) Report 28
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Report 13
per
Bekcer, Alfred
per
Bugmann, Harald
http://www.igbp.net
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2001
eng
The strong altitudinal gradients in mountain regions provide unique and sometimes the best opportunities to detect and analyse global change processes and phenomena. Meteorological, hydrological, cryospheric and ecological conditions change strongly over relatively short distances; thus biodiversity tends to be high, and characteristic sequences of ecosystems and cryospheric systems are found along mountain slopes. The boundaries between these systems experience shifts due to environmental change and thus may be used as indicators of such changes. The higher parts of many mountain ranges are not affected by direct human activities. These areas include many national parks and other protected environments. They may serve as locations where the environmental impacts of climate change alone, including changes in atmospheric chemistry, can be studied directly. Mountain regions are distributed all over the globe, from the Equator almost to the poles and from oceanic to highly continental climates. This global distribution allows us to perform comparative regional studies and to analyse the regional differentiation of environmental change processes as characterised above. Therefore, within the IGBP an Initiative for Collaborative Research on Global Change and Mountain Regions was developed, which strives to achieve an integrated approach for observing, modelling and investigating global change phenomena and processes in mountain regions, including their impacts on ecosystems and socio-economic systems.
88 p.
climate variability and change
ecosystems
hydrology
watersheds
land use
agriculture
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12006/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-49.pdf
0284-8105
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dalemneh
2010-03-23, 14:07:15
info:ark/67531/metadc12003
2010-03-23T13:42:26Z
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Global Wetland Distribution and Functional Characterization: Trace Gases and the Hydrologic Cycle
IGBP Report
Report from the Joint GAIM, BAHC, IGBP-DIS, IGAC, and LUCC Workshop Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 16-20 May 1996
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 46
per
Sahagian, Dork
per
Melack, John
http://www.igbp.net
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
1998
eng
The IGBP Wetlands workshop (Santa Barbara, CA, USA,16-20 May 1996) was held for the purpose of identifying data and research needs for characterizing wetlands in terms of their role in biogeochemical and hydrologic cycles. Wetlands cover only about 1% of the Earth's surface, yet are responsible for a much greater proportion of biogeochemical fluxes between the land surface, the atmosphere and hydrologic systems. They play a particularly important function in processing methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and sulphur as well as in sequestering carbon. Considerable progress has been made in the past 10 years regarding wetlands and methane: a global digital dataset of wetlands (Matthews and Fung 1987) was produced and global observations of methane have been combined with global three-dimensional atmospheric modelling (Fung et al. 1991) to constrain modelled fluxes of methane from high-latitude wetlands. Furthermore, significant advances have been made in understanding the biogeochemical processes that control fluxes of methane and other trace gases. The progress has made clear that present wetland classification schemes do not accurately reflect their roles in these processes because they have been based on wetland attributes such as dominant plant types which do not reflect differences in the functions of wetlands regarding biogeochemical cycles. Further, traditional wetland classifications cannot be distinguished on the basis of global remotely sensed observations. Consequently, it has been impossible to accurately quantify the distribution of key fluxes on the basis of observed land cover. The workshop developed a wetland parameterization scheme based on observable quantities to better incorporate wetlands into global land surface characterization schemes so that the relation between land cover and biogeochemical fluxes can be more accurately determined. An improved understanding of this relation will make it possible to better use observed or historical changes in land cover to infer changes in biogeochemical fluxes, including the cycles of gases such as methane and carbon dioxide which affect the radiative balance of the atmosphere.
92 p.
climate variability and change
wetlands
remote sensing
land use and land cover change
nitrogen cycle
agriculture
methane emissions
hydrologic cycles
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12003/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-46.pdf
0284-8015
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DC
ark:/67531/metadc12003
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dalemneh
2010-03-23, 13:42:26
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Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC): Implementation Strategy
IGBP Report
IHDP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 48
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Report 10
org
Scientific Steering Committee and International Project Office of LUCC
http://www.igbp.net/
org
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/
org
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
per
Nunes, C.
per
Augé, J. I.
http://www.igbp.net
[Stockholm, Sweden]
IGBP Secretariat
1999
eng
The Implementation Strategy of the Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC) project specifies in greater detail the activities and projects that will fulfil the mandate outlined in the LUCC Science/Research Plan published in 1995. The project, a joint initiative of IGBP and IHDP, is addressing important global change questions on the local, regional and global scale. The planned and ongoing activities involve a wide community of natural and social scientists. The new understanding of land-use and land-cover change dynamics following from the work carried out under the LUCC Implementation Strategy will be of crucial importance to the global environmental change research community as well as to decision-makers at the local, regional and global levels.
126 p.
climate variability and change
land use and land cover change
biodiversity
sustainability
subsistence rangelands
Africa
ecosystems
southern Yucatán peninsular region
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12005/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-48.pdf
0284-8015
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metadc12005
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ark:/67531/metadc12005
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
False
dalemneh
2010-03-23, 14:01:44
info:ark/67531/metadc12002
2010-03-23T13:38:54Z
partner:UNT
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Past Global Changes (PAGES) Status Report and Implementation Plan
IGBP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 45
per
Oldfield, Frank
http://www.pages-igbp.org/
org
Past Global Changes (PAGES) Programme
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
1998
eng
This document summarizes progress made thus far by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) programme element of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). The document also outlines the implementation plans for most of the Foci, Activities and Tasks currently within the PAGES remit. The plan first introduces the scope and rationale of PAGES science and explains how PAGES is organized structurally and scientifically to achieve its goals. For all of the palaeosciences relevant to IGBP goals, PAGES has sought to identify and create the organizational structures needed to support continued work and progress.
Models intended to predict future environmental changes must, in order to demonstrate their effectiveness, be capable of accurately reproducing conditions known to have occurred in the past. Through the organization of coordinated national and international scientific efforts, PAGES seeks to obtain and interpret a variety of palaeoclimatic records and to provide the data essential for the validation of predictive climate models. PAGES activities include integration and intercomparison of ice, ocean and terrestrial palaeorecords and encourages the creation of consistent analytical and data-base methodologies across the palaeosciences.
PAGES has already played a crucial role in the archiving, management and dissemination of palaeodata. This is fully summarized in the recently published Global Palaeoenvironmental Data Workshop Report (95-2). The growing significance of this type of activity is evidenced by the steep increase in consultation and use of the data currently in the public domain and accessible electronically, and by the growing importance
of such data for model validation and intercomparison.
236 p.
climate variability and change
paleoclimatology
human contributions and responses
atmospheric composition
ecosystems
polar studies
tropics
rivers
lakes
climate modelling
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12002/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-45.pdf
0284-8015
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ark:/67531/metadc12002
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metadc12002
DC
ark:/67531/metadc12002
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
False
dalemneh
2010-03-23, 13:38:54
info:ark/67531/metadc12001
2010-03-23T13:32:56Z
partner:UNT
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START Implementation Plan 1997-2002
IGBP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 44
per
Fuchs, Roland
per
Hassan, Virji
per
Fleming, Cory
http://start.org/
org
SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START)
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
1998
eng
The primary goals of the SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training in global change science (START), which is co-sponsored by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP); the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP); and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) are to promote regional global change science and to enhance the capacity of individuals, institutions and developing regions to undertake such research.
START capacity building initiatives include the recognition that human capacity building is much more than training and that, as with all development, sustainable development is best. Once-off training exercises are easy to organize, but are the least effective method of capacity enhancement and result in large cost/benefit ratios. In contrast, sustained development of human capacity through continual involvement with research maximizes efficiency and minimizes the cost/benefit ratio. START seeks to enhance regional global change research while at the same time enhancing the individual and institutional capacity to conduct such research. The details as to how START operates, and how it plans to encompass its vision and meet its objectives are given in the START Implementation Plan.
80 p.
climate variability and change
human resources
decision-support resources
policy
development
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12001/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-44.pdf
0284-8015
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ark:/67531/metadc12001
[harvested 2009-10-28]
The Series title on the document says IGBP Report 45.
There is already a different IGBP Report 45.
The URL indicates that it is IGBP Report 44.
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metadc12001
DC
ark:/67531/metadc12001
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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dalemneh
2010-03-23, 13:32:56
False
info:ark/67531/metadc12007
2010-03-23T14:11:31Z
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The Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study: Science Plan and Implementation Strategy
IGBP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 50
per
Broadgate, Wendy
per
Young, Bill
http://solas-int.org/
org
Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study
http://www.igbp.net
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2004
eng
SOLAS (Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study) is a new international research initiative that has as its goal: To achieve quantitative understanding of the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere, and of how this coupled system affects and is affected by climate and environmental change. Achievement of this goal is important in order to understand and quantify the role that ocean-atmosphere interactions play in the regulation of climate and global change. The domain of SOLAS is focussed on processes at the air-sea interface and includes a natural emphasis on the atmospheric and upper-ocean boundary layers, while recognising that some of the processes to be studied will, of necessity, be linked to significantly greater height and depth scales. SOLAS research will cover all ocean areas including coastal seas and ice covered areas. A fundamental characteristic of SOLAS is that the research is not only interdisciplinary (involving biogeochemistry, physics, mathematical modelling, etc.), but also involves closely coupled studies requiring marine and atmospheric scientists to work together. Such research will require a shift in attitude within the academic and funding communities, both of which are generally organised on a medium-by-medium basis in most countries.
88 p.
climate variability and change
nitrogen cycle
atmospheric composition
biogeochemical interactions
oceans
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12007/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-50.pdf
0284-8105
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metadc12007
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ark:/67531/metadc12007
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
dalemneh
2010-03-23, 14:11:31
False
info:ark/67531/metadc12000
2010-03-23T13:23:37Z
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Predicting Global Change Impacts on Mountain Hydrology and Ecology: Integrated Catchment Hydrology/Altitudinal Gradient Studies: A workshop report
IGBP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 43
per
Becker, Alfred
per
Bugmann, Harald
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
1997
eng
Documentation resulting from an international workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal, 30 March - 2 April 1996. The following themes were addressed by the working groups:
1. "Role of ecology and hydrology for the sustainable development in mountain regions" (the "human dimensions").
2. "Coupled ecological and hydrological studies along altitudinal gradients in mountain regions", with a sub-group dealing with the "Assessment of the spatial distribution pattern of basic water balance components."
3. "Impacts of global change on the ecology and hydrology in mountain regions", with a sub-group on the "Identification of global change impacts on hydrology and ecology in high mountain areas."
62 p.
climate variability and change
water cycle
ecology
mountain regions
sustainable development
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12000/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-43.pdf
0284-8015
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ark:/67531/metadc12000
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ark:/67531/metadc12000
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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dalemneh
2010-03-23, 13:23:37
False
info:ark/67531/metadc12008
2010-03-23T14:14:02Z
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Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone: Science Plan and Implementation Strategy
IGBP Report
IHDP Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 51
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Report 18
http://www.loicz.org/
org
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
per
Kremer, Hartwig H.
per
Le Tissier, Martin D.A.
per
Burbridge, Peter R.
per
Talaue-McManus, Liana
per
Rabalais, Nancy N.
per
Parslow, John
per
Crossland, Chris J.
per
Young, Bill
http://www.igbp.net
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2005
eng
Coastal zones play a key role in Earth System functioning, by contributing significantly to the life support systems of most societies. Human activities modifying riverine hydrology and riverine material fluxes to the coastal zone, have increased in both scale and rate of change in the last 200 years. The underlying processes that drive changes to coastal systems occur at a multiplicity of temporal and spatial scales. These changes alter the availability of ecosystem goods and services. However, disciplinary fragmentation impedes our ability to understand the regional and global changes that affect coastal systems, and thus limits our ability to guide management and decision making. Progress has been made in understanding the changes in Earth System processes that affect the coastal zone, and the role of coastal systems in global change. This includes identifying proxies that describe the state of coastal systems under existing conditions and change scenarios. Typologies have been developed to assist in the interpolation of results into areas where primary information is lacking. This has enabled a first-order up-scaling to a global synthesis.
60 p.
climate variability and change
human contributions and responses
decision-support resources
coastal studies
rivers
Ssstainability
ecosystems
fisheries
land use
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12008/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/report-51.pdf
0284-8105
1814-7925
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ark:/67531/metadc12008
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False
dalemneh
2010-03-23, 14:14:02
info:ark/67531/metadc12043
2010-03-16T15:46:51Z
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Public Health Service Act
Safe Drinking Water Act
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
1974
eng
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was established to protect the quality of drinking water in the U.S. This law focuses on all waters actually or potentially designed for drinking use, whether from above ground or underground sources.
The Act authorizes EPA to establish minimum standards to protect tap water and requires all owners or operators of public water systems to comply with these primary (health-related) standards. The 1996 amendments to SDWA require that EPA consider a detailed risk and cost assessment, and best available peer-reviewed science, when developing these standards. State governments, which can be approved to implement these rules for EPA, also encourage attainment of secondary standards (nuisance-related). Under the Act, EPA also establishes minimum standards for state programs to protect underground sources of drinking water from endangerment by underground injection of fluids.
124 p.
environmental policy
water quality
drinking water
environmental health
groundwater
public health
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12043/
http://epw.senate.gov/sdwa.pdf
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ark:/67531/metadc12043
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ark:/67531/metadc12043
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2010-10-06T18:01:37Z
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Uses and Limitations of Observations, Data, Forecasts, and Other Projections in Decision Support for Selected Sectors and Regions
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.1, August 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Email: information@climatescience.gov
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
per
Vukovich, Fred
per
Macauley, Molly K.
per
Macauley, Molly K.
per
Byun, Daewon W.
per
Renne, David
per
Glass, Gregory
per
Hartmann, Holly
http://www.gcrio.org
Washington, DC
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2008-08
eng
This Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP), Uses and Limitations of Observations, Data, Forecasts, and Other Projections in Decision Support for Selected Sectors and Regions. This is part of a series of 21 SAPs produced by the CCSP aimed at providing current assessments of climate change science to inform public debate, policy, and operational decisions. This SAP focuses on the use of climate observations, data, forecasts, and other projections in decision support.
x, 73 p. : col. ill.
forecasts
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
climate variability
climate change
environmental change
agricultural efficiency
air quality
energy
human health
water quality
ESDC
UNT
text_book
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12035/
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap5-1/final-report/sap5-1-final-all.pdf
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ark:/67531/metadc12035
This document, part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan, was prepared in accordance with Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554) and the information quality act guidelines issued by the Department of Commerce and NOAA pursuant to Section 515). The CCSP Interagency Committee relies on Department of Commerce and NOAA certifications regarding compliance with Section 515 and Department guidelines as the basis for determining that this product conforms with Section 515. For purposes of compliance with Section 515, this CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Product is an "interpreted product" as that term is used in NOAA guidelines and is classified as "highly influential". This document does not express any regulatory policies of the United States or any of its agencies, or provide recommendations for regulatory action.
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nhall
2010-10-06, 18:01:37
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Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.5, February 2008
Synthesis and Assessment Product
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Coordinator
per
Wilbanks, Thomas J.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
per
Bhatt, Vatsal
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
per
Bilello, Daniel E.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
per
Bull, Stanley R.
National Energy Technology Laboratory
per
Ekmann, James
Brookhaven National Laboratory
per
Horak, William C.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mark D. Levine, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
per
Huang, Y. Joe
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
per
Levine, Mark D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
per
Sale, Michael J.
Argonne National Laboratory
per
Schmalzer, David K.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
per
Scott, Michael J.
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2008-02
eng
This document, part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. Climate affects the design, construction, safety, operations, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure and systems. The prospect of a changing climate raises critical questions regarding how alterations in temperature, precipitation, storm events, and other aspects of the climate could affect the nation's roads, airports, rail, transit systems, pipelines, ports, and waterways. Phase I of this regional assessment of climate change and its potential impacts on transportation systems addresses these questions for the region of the U.S. central Gulf Coast between Galveston, Texas and Mobile, Alabama. This region contains multimodal transportation infrastructure that is critical to regional and national transportation services. Historical trends and future climate scenarios were used to establish a context for examining the potential effects of climate change on all major transportation modes within the region. Climate changes anticipated during the next 50 to 100 years for the central Gulf Coast include warming temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and increased storm intensity. The warming of the oceans and decline of polar ice sheets is expected to accelerate the rate of sea level rise globally. The effects of sea level rise in most central Gulf Coast counties will be exacerbated by the sinking of the land surface, which is accounted for in this assessment. The significance of these climate factors for transportation systems was assessed.
iv, 84 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
infrastructure
climate change
climate variability
United States
energy
land cover change
ESDC
UNT
text_book
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12032/
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-5/final-report/sap4-5-final-all.pdf
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Disclaimer: This document, part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan, was prepared in accordance with Section 515 of the The CCSP Interagency Committee relies on Department of Energy certifications regarding compliance with Section 515 and Department guidelines as the basis for determining that this product conforms with Section 515. For purposes of compliance with Section 515, this CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Product is an "interpreted product" as that term is used in Department of Energy guidelines and is classified as "highly influential." This document does not express any regulatory policies of the United States or any of its agencies, or provide recommendations for regulatory action.
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metadc12032
DC
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nhall
2010-10-06, 17:45:43
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Summary for Policymakers:Scientific-Technical Analyses of Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change - IPCC Working Group II
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1995 Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate Change 1995: IPCC Second Assessment Report
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.unep.org/
United Nations Environment Programme
1995
eng
This summary of assessment provides scientific, technical and economic information that can be used, inter alia, in evaluating whether the projected range of plausible impacts constitutes "dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system," as referred to in Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and in evaluating adaptation and mitigation options that could be used in progressing towards the ultimate objective of the UNFCCC
climate variability and change
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12062/
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/climate-changes-1995/spm-scientific-technical-analysis.pdf
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ark:/67531/metadc12062
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metadc12062
DC
ark:/67531/metadc12062
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
dalemneh
2010-04-15, 16:30:11
False
info:ark/67531/metadc12064
2010-04-13T10:08:57Z
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Annual Report on the Environment, the Sound Material-Cycle Society and the Biodiversity 2009
Annual Report on the Environment in Japan
org
[Japan] Ministry of the Environment
hakusho@env.go.jp
org
[Japan] Ministry of the Environment: Environmental Strategy Division
junkan@env.go.jp
org
[Japan] Ministry of the Environment: Office of Sound Material-Cycle Society
NBSAP@env.go.jp
org
[Japan] Ministry of the Environment: Global Biodiversity Strategy Office
Tokyo, Japan
[Japan] Ministry of the Environment
2009-11
eng
jpn
The white paper on comprehensive environmental policy describes the role of Japan's economy in a sound global environment. In the first part, the report describes current the environmental conditions of the Earth and of Japan, human activities in Japan and overseas, their environmental impacts, and the pathway to the environmental century. The second part of the white paper reports on various measures.
75 p. : col. ill.
annual report
environment
material-cycle society
biodiversity
environmental policy
environmental impacts and measures
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
Japan
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12064/
http://www.env.go.jp/en/wpaper/2009/fulltext.pdf
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dalemneh
2010-04-13, 10:08:57
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2010-04-14T10:19:18Z
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Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
1995-10-30
eng
chi
This law was established in China to prevent the pollution of the environment by solid waste, to ensure public health and safety, and to promote the development of socialist modernization.
14 p.
Law of the People's Republic of China
prevention and control of environmental pollution by solid waste
waste management
environmental management
laws and regulations
environmental policy
China
1996-04-01
2005-04-01
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12066/
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Policies_Regulations/laws/environmental_laws/200710/t20071009_109944.htm
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ark:/67531/metadc12066
[harvested: 2009-10-07]
This edition was adopted by the 16th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on October 30, 1995, promulgated by Order No.58 of the President of the People's Republic of China on October 30, 1995, to be effective as of April 1, 1996
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2010-04-14, 10:19:18
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Japan's Initiative on Climate Change
org
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Kasumigaseki 2-2-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8919, Japan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2009-05
eng
Japan's Initiative on Climate Change defines the current state of climate change, summarizes diplomacy related to international environmental cooperation, and international climage change policy, with an outlook to the future.
23 p.
Initiative on Climate Change
current state
International Post-2012 Framework
international cooperation
innovation
2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Copenhagen Summit
energy efficient technologies
solar power
hybrid vehicles
hydrogen fuel-cells
Japan
Indonesia
Bangladesh
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12063/
http://www.mofa.go.jp/POLICY/environment/warm/cop/initiative0905.pdf
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Summary for Policymakers: The Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change -IPCC Working Group III
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1995 Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate Change 1995: IPCC Second Assessment Report
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.unep.org/
United Nations Environment Programme
1995
eng
This summary report assesses a large part of the existing literature on the socioeconomics of climate change and identifies areas in which a consensus has emerged on key issues and areas where differences exist1. The chapters have been arranged so that they cover several key issues. First, frameworks for socioeconomic assessment of costs and benefits of action and inaction are described. Particular attention is given to the applicability of costbenefit analysis, the incorporation of equity and social considerations, and consideration of intergenerational equity issues. Second, the economic and social benefits of limiting greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing sinks are reviewed. Third, the economic, social and environmental costs of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions are assessed. Next, generic mitigation and adaptation response options are reviewed, methods for assessing the costs and effectiveness of different response options are summarized, and integrated assessment techniques are discussed. Finally, the report provides an economic assessment of policy instruments to combat climate change.
[17] p.
climate change
decision-support resources
environmental change
climate variability
economic dimensions
environmental issues
ESDC
UNT
text
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Marine Ecosystems and Global Change
IGBP Science
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Science No. 5
http://www.globec.org/
org
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics Project (GLOBEC)
per
Barange, Manuel
per
Harris, Roger
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2003
eng
The ocean is a vital component of the metabolism of the Earth and plays a key role in global change. In fact, the oceans cover so much of the Earth's surface that our planet has been described as the Water Planet, and it could be argued that its most extensive ecosystems are marine. Marine ecosystems are inextricably involved in the physical, chemical, biological and societal processes of global change. It is impossible to describe and understand the Earth system without understanding the ocean, the special characteristics of the environment that it provides for life, the changes that it is undergoing and the manner in which these changes interact with the total Earth System. Understanding the functioning of marine ecosystems and how they respond to global change is also essential in order to effectively manage global marine living resources, such as fisheries. The GLOBEC project is an international response to the need to understand how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations, from zooplankton to fish, that comprise a major component of oceanic ecosystems. GLOBEC's goal is to advance our understanding of the structure and functioning of such ecosystems, their major subsystems, and responses to physical forcing so that a capability can be developed to forecast the response of marine ecosystems to global change. This volume in the IGBP Science Series, "Marine Ecosystems and Global Change", gives topical examples of the scientifi c problems that GLOBEC is tackling, the innovative approaches adopted, and some selected scientific achievements. It has been written at a time when GLOBEC is in the mid-phase of its implementation. The ultimate achievements of GLOBEC research will be presented in a final synthesis at the end of the project.
32 p. : ill.
climate variability and change
oceans
ecosystems
biodiversity
eels
cod
north pacific salmon
zooplankton
ESDC
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text
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Global Change and the Earth System: A planet under pressure
IGBP Science
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Science No. 4
org
Global Environmental Change Programmes
per
Steffen, Will
per
Tyson, Peter
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2001
eng
The PAGES research community works toward improving our understanding of the Earth's changing environment. By placing current and future global changes in a long term perspective, they can be assessed relative to natural variability. Since the industrial revolution, the Earth System has become increasingly affected by human activities. Natural and human processes are woven into a complex tapestry of forcings, responses, feedbacks and consequences. Deciphering this complexity is essential as we plan for the future. Paleoenvironmental research is the only way to investigate Earth System processes that operate on timescales longer than the period of instrumental records.
32 p. : ill.
climate variability and change
ecosystems
climate models
El Niño
monsoons
human contributions and responses
paleoclimatology
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UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12041/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/resources/science-4.pdf
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Environmental Variability and Climate Change
IGBP Science
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Science No. 3
http://www.pages-igbp.org/
org
Past Global Changes (PAGES)
per
Alverson, Keith
per
Bradley, Raymond
per
Pedersen, Thomas
http://www.igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
2001
eng
The PAGES research community works toward improving our understanding of the Earth's changing environment. By placing current and future global changes in a long term perspective, they can be assessed relative to natural variability. Since the industrial revolution, the Earth System has become increasingly affected by human activities. Natural and human processes are woven into a complex tapestry of forcings, responses, feedbacks and consequences. Deciphering this complexity is essential as we plan for the future. Paleoenvironmental research is the only way to investigate Earth System processes that operate on timescales longer than the period of instrumental records.
31 p.
climate variability and change
ecosystems
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monsoons
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UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12040/
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Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation [Map]
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Map No. 1.
org
CAVM Team
per
Walker, Donald A.
Alaska Geobotany Center
per
Raynolds, Martha K.
Alaska Geobotany Center
per
Maier, Hilmar, A.
Anchorage, Alaska
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2003
eng
The Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map shows the types of vegetation that occur across the Arctic, between the ice-covered Arctic Ocean to the north and the northern limit of forests to the south. Environmental and climatic conditions are extreme, with a short growing season and low summer temperatures. As one moves southward (outward from map's center in all directions), the amount of warmth available for plant growth increases considerably.
2 p. L: col. ill.
climate variability and change
ecosystems
arctic studies
polar studies
biodiversity
ESDC
UNT
image_map
image
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12044/
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Suggested Citation: CAVM Team. 2003. Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map. Scale 1:7,500,000. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Map No. 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska.
Funded by: U.S. National Science Foundation grant number OPP-9908-829, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
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Summary for Policymakers: The Science of Climate Change - IPCC Working Group I
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.unep.org/
United Nations Environment Programme
1995
eng
Greenhouse gas concentrations have continued to increase. Anthropogenic aerosols tend to produce negative radiative forcings. Climate has changed over the past century. The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate. Climate is expected to continue to change in the future. There are still many uncertainties.
Climate Variability and Change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/climate-changes-1995/spm-science-of-climate-changes.pdf
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IPCC Expert Meeting on the Science of Alternative Metrics: Meeting Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Expert Meeting on the Science of Alternative Metrics, Oslo, Norway, 18-20 March 2009.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
per
Plattner, Gian-Kasper
per
Stocker, Thomas
per
Midgley, Pauline
per
Tignor, Melinda
http://www.ipcc-wg1.unibe.ch/
Bern, Switzerland
IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit, University of Bern
2009-05
eng
This extended report of the IPCC Expert Meeting on the Science of Alternative Metrics that was held in Oslo 18-20 March 2009 is provided in response to an invitation from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Ad Hoc Working Group on Further
Commitments for Annex I Parties under Kyoto Protocol (UNFCCC AWG-KP) to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
to undertake further technical assessment of alternative common metrics which are used to calculate the CO2 equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources, and removals by sinks, of greenhouse gases listed in Annex A to the Kyoto Protocol.
The outcome of the expert meeting was an agreed set of key conclusions and recommendations to UNFCCC in response to the request of the AWG-KP as well as more specific recommendations to the scientific community regarding research needs and ones relevant to the scoping of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). These were presented to the IPCC Plenary in a short report at its 30th
session in Antalya, 21-23 April 2009. The current full report of the expert meeting amplifies those conclusions and recommendations
and includes the extended abstracts of the meeting presentations as well as a general bibliography.
ix, 79 p. : col. ill.
environmental change
environmental policy
economic dimensions of mitigation
climate variability and change
decision-support resources
global warming
human contributions and responses
ESDC
UNT
text_book
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11872/
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/supporting-material/expert-meeting-metrics-oslo.pdf
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Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
[China] National People's Congress
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
1989-12-26
eng
This law is established for the purpose of protecting and improving public health and environmental ecology, preventing and controlling pollution and other public hazards, safeguarding human health, and facilitating the development of socialist modernization in China.
9 p. : ill.
environmental protection
Law of the People's Republic of China
environmental management
environmental policy
laws and regulations
China
1989-12-26
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11871/
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Policies_Regulations/laws/environmental_laws/200710/t20071009_109928.htm
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Adopted at the 11th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress on December 26, 1989, promulgated by Order No. 22 of the President of the People's Republic of China on December 26, 1989 and effective on the date of promulgation
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Global Environmental Change and Human Health: Science Plan and Implementation Strategy
ESSP Report
Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) Report No. 4
org
Global Environmental Change and Human Health
per
Confalonieri, Ulisses
per
McMichael, Anthony
http://www.essp.org/
Paris, France
Earth System Science Partnership
2006
eng
It is widely, often intuitively, understood that human societies and the well being and health of their populations depend on the flow of materials, services and cultural enrichment from the natural world. Nevertheless, to date there has been little formal description and study of the relationships between global environmental changes and human health, and of the ways in which social institutions and processes modulate those relationships. For several human-induced global environmental changes, particularly changes to the world's climate system and to the ultraviolet radiation-filtering functions of the stratosphere, there has been a recent increase in research into the main health risks. But for most other global environmental changes little formal research on the risks to human health has been carried out. Indeed, among the practitioners of the various scientific disciplines engaged in studying the processes and impacts of global environmental changes - including environmental sciences, ecology, geography, economics, etc. - there has been relatively little recognition that ecosystem disruptions, species extinctions, degradation of food-producing systems, the perturbation of cycling of elements and nutrients, and the spread of cities pose risks to the well being and health of human populations. This science plan and implementation strategy proposes to address this gap in knowledge and research.
79 p. : ill.
climate variability and change
atmospheric composition
ozone depletion
land use and land cover change
ecosystems
biodiversity
infectuous diseases
urbanisation
food production
human health
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11877/
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Environmental Impact Assessment in Japan
[Japan] Ministry of the Environment
org
Japan. Kankyōsho
[Japan] Ministry of the Environment
Tokyo, Japan
Japan. Kankyōsho.
eng
This document introduces the definition of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), the EIA System in Japan, Japanese EIA Law and the Strategic Environmental Assessment.
20 p. : ill.
environmental impact assessment
strategic environmental assessment
decision-support resources
economics
evaluation
environmental policy
Japan
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11870/
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Towards Sustainable Global Health
Studies of the University: Research, Counsel, Education
'Studies of the University: Research, Counsel, Education' (SOURCE) - Publication Series of UNU-EHS No. 11/2008
per
Exner, Martin
per
Klein, Günter
per
Rechkemmer, Andreas
per
Schmidt, Falk
http://www.ehs.unu.edu/
Bonn, Germnay
UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
http://www.ihdp.unu.edu
Bonn, Germnay
IHDP Secretariat
2008
eng
Global health has in recent years drawn increasing scientific, political and popular attention not only due to global epidemics themselves,but also because of the social activities and environmental conditions that shape health threats and influence those who are affected. The study dealswith the issue of 'Sustainable Global Health'which has evolved from the realization that there will be no alleviation of poverty without success in control of serious public health threats, no economic prosperity and sustainability without a healthy workforce, and no social stability and peace as long as people have to suffer from insufficient health services, from malnutrition, from HIV/AIDS pandemics, or from lack of safe water. The study addresses a broad range of issues related to human health at regional and global levels. It includes the theme of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as a tool for the private sector to exercise responsibility and interest in using the workplaces as a route and as means for education, and for a wide participation of every citizen in securing his or her individual health and well-being. Highlighted throughout the study are integrated approaches towards sustainable health.These approaches shed light on both the importance of multilevel health governance and the understanding of human health as an issue of human security in responding to health threats. Furthermore,the study emphasizes the links between the phenomena of global environmental change, which often further increases pressure on health systems, and the crucial role urban areas play in this realm.
124 p. : ill.
public health
sustainability
hygiene
sanitation
water quality
environmental hazards
urban environments
land use
security
infectious diseases
climate variability and change
globalization
Brazil
China
India
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/file/Project+Documents/GECHH+Source?menu=23
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Global Carbon Project: The Science Framework and Implementation
GCP Report
ESSP Report
The Global Carbon Project: A framework for Internationally Co-ordinated Research on the Global Carbon Cycle
Global Carbon Project (GCP) Report No. 1
Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) Report No. 1
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/
org
Global Carbon Project
per
Canadell, Josep G.
per
Dickinson, Robert
per
Hibbard, Kathy
per
Raupach, Michael
per
Young, Oran
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org
Canberra, Australia
Global Carbon Project
2003
eng
Carbon cycle research is often carried out in isolation from research on energy systems and normally focuses only on the biophysical patterns and processes of carbon sources and sinks. The Global Carbon Project represents a significant advance beyond the status quo in several important ways. First, the problem is conceptualised from the outset as one involving fully integrated human and natural components; the emphasis is on the carbon-climate-human system (fossil-fuel based energy systems + biophysical carbon cycle + physical climate system) and not simply on the biophysical carbon cycle alone. Secondly, the development of new methodologies for analysing and modelling the integrated carbon cycle is a central feature of the project. Thirdly, the project provides an internally consistent framework for the coordination and integration of the many national and regional carbon cycle research programmes that are being established around the world. Fourthly, the project addresses questions of direct policy relevance, such as the management strategies and sustainable regional development pathways required to achieve stabilisation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Finally, the Global Carbon Project goes beyond the traditional set of stakeholders for a global change research project by seeking to engage the industrial and energy sectors as well as the economic development and resource management sectors in the developing regions of the world.
69 p.
carbon cycle
human contributions and responses
atmospheric composition
emissions
decision-support resources
carbon management
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11874/
http://www.igbp.net/documents/GCP-SP.pdf
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The Global Water System Project: Science Framework and Implementation Activities
ESSP Report
GWSP Report
Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) Report No. 3
Global Water System Project (GWSP) Report No. 1
http://www.gwsp.org/
org
The Global Water System Project
per
Alcamo, Joseph
per
Grassl, Hartmut
per
Hoff, Holger
per
Kabat, Pavel
per
Lansigan, Felino
per
Lawford, Richard
per
Lettenmaier, Dennis
per
Lévêque, Christian
per
Meybeck, Michel
per
Naiman, Robert
per
Pahl-Wostl, Claudia
per
Vörösmarty, Charles
http://www.essp.org/
Earth System Science Partnership
2005-02
eng
Water plays a key role in the development and functioning of society by serving as a basic resource for activities such as irrigation, livestock production, fisheries, aquaculture, and hydroelectric power. Adequate water use in house-holds, businesses and manufacturing is a prerequisite of economic growth. Since many of the world's diseases are waterborne, we need clean water and sanitation for reducing the incidence of these diseases. And, most significantly, water provides habitat and sustenance for a rich diversity of plant and animal species that make up aquatic and riparian ecosystems, providing the basis for many of the goods and services received by society. Society is forcing unprecedented changes on global water resources through worldwide abstraction and pollution of water. Society also has a pervasive indirect impact because anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are causing long-term global changes in weather extremes and climate. Changes in the global water system are difficult to understand with simple cause-effect relationships because of the intense and complex linkages and feedbacks between different parts of the system. These changes and linkages also sometimes lead to abrupt changes in water systems such as the eutrophication of coastal aquatic systems, loss of biodiversity, the exceedance of safe water supply in urban areas, or intense competition between different water sectors for remaining water resources.
76 p. : ill.
global water cycle
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
land use and land cover change
biogeochemical cycle
climate variability and change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11879/
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2010-04-12, 17:38:30
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2010-04-12T17:32:02Z
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What Can Be Learned From Champions of Ozone Layer Protection for Urban and Regional Carbon Management in Japan?
GCP Report
Global Carbon Project (GCP) Report No. 3
per
Canan, Penelope
per
Crawford, Shaney
www.globalcarbonproject.org/
Global Carbon Project
http://www.nies.go.jp/
Tsukuba, Japan
National Institute for Environmental Studies
2006-04-01
eng
jpn
The document contains the opening addresses of the conveners and presentation slides of the presenters in the Tokyo Office of the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) event. The conference was organized around the idea of introducing two important groups to each other to stimulate new ideas to break through barriers for carbon management, a major environmental and social challenge in the 21st Century.
35 p. : col. ill.
carbon management
climate variability and change
decision-support resources
atmospheric composition
human contributions and responses
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11876/
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Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science
A Climate-Oriented Approach for Learners of All Ages
www.climatescience.gov
org
U.S Climate Change Science Program
www.climatescience.gov
Washington DC, USA
U.S Climate Change Science Program
2009-03
eng
This guide aims to help individuals and communities know and understand Earth’s climate, the impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. The guide aims to promote greater climate science literacy by providing an educational framework of principles and concepts. The guide can serve educators who teach climate science as a way to meet content standards in their science curricula.
17 p. : col. ill.
Climate change impacts
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A Guide for Individuals and Communities
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Endangered Species Act of 1973
org
United States. Congress. House
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
2002-01-24
eng
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) of the Department of the Interior maintains a worldwide list which, as of Feb. 20, 2008, included 1574 endangered species (599 are plants) and 351 threatened species (148 are plants). Species include birds, insects, fish, reptiles, mammals, crustaceans, flowers, grasses, and trees. Anyone can petition FWS to include a species on this list.
The law requires federal agencies, in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and/or the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, to ensure that actions they authorize, fund, or carry out are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any listed species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of designated critical habitat of such species. The law also prohibits any action that causes a "taking" of any listed species of endangered fish or wildlife. Likewise, import, export, interstate, and foreign commerce of listed species are all generally prohibited.
47 p.
biodiversity
laws and regulations
endangered species
environmental conservation
threatened species
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: A State of Knowledge Report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, North Carolina
per
Karl, Thomas R.
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
per
Melillo, Jerry M.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, North Carolina
per
Peterson, Thomas C.
Climate Communication, Basalt, Colorado
per
Hassol, Susan Joy
Senior Science Writer
per
Hassol, Susan Joy
Lead Graphic Designer
per
Veasey, Sara W.
per
Burkett, Virginia R.
per
Carter, Lynne M.
per
Cohen, Stewart J.
per
Grimm, Nancy B.
per
Hatfield, Jerry L.
per
Hayhoe, Katharine
per
Janetos, Anthony C.
per
Kaye, Jack A.
per
Lawrimore, Jay H.
per
McCarthy, James J.
per
McGuire, A. David
per
Mills, Evan
per
Overpeck,Jonathan T.
per
Patz, Jonathan A.
per
Pulwarty, Roger S.
per
Santer, Benjamin D.
per
Karl, Thomas R.
per
Melillo, Jerry M.
per
Peterson, Thomas C.
per
Savonis, Michael J.
per
Schwartz, H. Gerry, Jr.
per
Shea, Eileen L.
per
Stone, John M.R.
per
Udall, Bradley H.
per
Walsh, John E.
per
Wehner, Michael F.
per
Wilbanks, Thomas J.
per
Wuebbles, Donald J.
www.cambridge.org
New York, USA
Cambridge University Press,
2009
eng
This book is the most comprehensive report to date on the wide range of impacts of climate change in the United States. It is written in plain language to better inform members of the public and policymakers. The report finds that global warming is unequivocal, primarily human-induced, and its impacts are already apparent in transportation, agriculture, health, and water and energy supplies. These impacts are expected to grow with continued climate change - the higher the levels of greenhouse gas emissions, the greater the impacts. The report illustrates how these impacts can be kept to a minimum if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. The choices we make now will determine the severity of climate change impacts in the future. This book will help citizens, business leaders, and policymakers at all levels to make informed decisions about responding to climate change and its impacts.
Likely to set the policy agenda across the US for the next few years Features examples of actions currently being pursued in various regions to address climate change. Summarizes in one place the current and projected affects of climate change in the United States
188 p. : ill.
Climate change impacts
Global climate change
Climate change
United States
Global warming
United States
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UNT
text_book
text
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http://downloads.climatescience.gov/usimpacts/pdfs/climate-impacts-report.pdf
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This report was produced by an advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, for the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, and at the request of the U.S. Government. Therefore, the report is in the public domain. Some materials used in the report are copyrighted and permission was granted to the U.S. government for their publication in this report. For subsequent uses that include such copyrighted materials, permission for reproduction must be sought from the copyright holder. In all cases, credit must be given for copyrighted materials.
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Antarctic fact-file
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk
org
British Antactic Survey
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
Swindon, UK
National Environment Research Council
2003
eng
Antarctica is a continent for science. All countries working in Antarctica carry out scientific research, in a surprising range of physical and biological sciences, from the vastness of space to the minute scale of micro-organisms. Activities are regulated by the Antarctic Treaty, which has been in force since 1959 and is signed by all countries operating there. The Treaty reserves the continent for peaceful purposes, and all military and industrial activities are banned.
2 p.
Antarctica
Antarctica
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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DIVERSITAS Science Plan
DIVERSITAS
DIVERSITAS Report No. 1
http://www.diversitas-international.org/
org
DIVERSITAS
http://www.diversitas-international.org/
Paris, France
DIVERSITAS
2002-09
eng
This Science Plan is mainly concerned with the current extinction crisis on Earth, which, unlike its predecessors, is occurring at an unprecedented rate, is the direct result of human activities and is occurring at all levels at which diversity is measured - from the genetic diversity of many natural and domesticated species to the diversity of ecosystems and landscapes, through the tremendous richness of species. Current human-induced rates of species extinction are estimated to be about 1,000 times greater than past background rates.
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. Scientists commonly measure and describe this variety at the level of genes, species and ecosystems, but scientific interest in biodiversity goes far beyond describing and measuring it. The DIVERSITAS programme was founded to address the scientific questions that need to be answered in order to understand how biodiversity supports life on Earth, what the impacts of the present loss of biodiversity are for human and ecosystem survival and how humans can sustainably use and conserve biodiversity.
36 p.
biodiversity
ecosystems
climate variability
decision support
human contributions
agriculture
land use
invasive species
climate change
human responses
landcover change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11964/
http://www.diversitas-international.org/docs/diversitas/diversitassp.pdf
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The Interplay between Climate Change, Forests, and Disturbances
per
Dale, Virginia H.
per
Joyce, Linda A.
per
McNulty, Steve
per
Neilson, Ronald P.
Elsevier
2000-03-25
eng
Climate change affects forests both directly and indirectly through disturbances. Disturbances are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems, and climate change can alter these natural interactions. When disturbances exceed their natural range of variation, the change in forest structure and function may be extreme. Each disturbance affects forests differently. Some disturbances have tight interactions with the species and forest communities which can be disrupted by climate change. Impacts of disturbances and thus of climate change are seen over a broad spectrum of spatial and temporal scales. Future observations, research, and tool development are needed to further understand the interactions between climate change and forest disturbances.
4 pages.
Climate Variability and Change
Ecosystems
Forestry
Drought
Fire
Hurricanes
Introduced Species
Outbreaks
Storms
The Science of the Total Environment 262(2000) 201-204
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UNT
text
text
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http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/forests/forests1.pdf
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Energy Policy Act
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
2005-01-04
eng
The Energy Policy Act (EPA) addresses energy production in the United States, including: (1) energy efficiency; (2) renewable energy; (3) oil and gas; (4) coal; (5) Tribal energy; (6) nuclear matters and security; (7) vehicles and motor fuels, including ethanol; (8) hydrogen; (9) electricity; (10) energy tax incentives; (11) hydropower and geothermal energy; and (12) climate change technology. For example, the Act provides loan guarantees for entities that develop or use innovative technologies that avoid the by-production of greenhouse gases. Another provision of the Act increases the amount of biofuel that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States.
550 p.
energy
renewable energy
oil and gas
nuclear energy
hydropower
geothermal
coal energy
ethanol
policy
biofuel
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11966/
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h6enr.txt.pdf
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Recent Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
per
Blasing, T.J.
http://cdiac.ornl.gov
Oak Ridge, TN
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
2009-07
eng
Gases typically measured in parts per million (ppm), parts per billion (ppb) or parts per trillion (ppt) by volume are presented separately to facilitate comparison of numbers.
5 p.
Atmospheric Composition
Climate Variability and Change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/current_ghg.html
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National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
1970-01-01
eng
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was one of the first laws ever written that establishes the broad national framework for protecting our environment. NEPA's basic policy is to assure that all branches of government give proper consideration to the environment prior to undertaking any major federal action that significantly affects the environment.
NEPA requirements are invoked when airports, buildings, military complexes, highways, parkland purchases, and other federal activities are proposed. Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), which are assessments of the likelihood of impacts from alternative courses of action, are required from all Federal agencies and are the most visible NEPA requirements.
9 p.
environmental policy
environmental goals
envrionmental quality
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://epw.senate.gov/nepa69.pdf
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Climate Change: The Evidence Mounts Up
Director Office of the US Global Change Research Program
per
MacCracken, Michael C.
www.usgcrp.gov
Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.
[US Global Change Research Program]
1995-08-24
eng
This article was published in Nature and summarized the presentations of a six-day symposium held 3-8 July 1995 on Climate Variability and Forcing over the past mellennium. Our present climate is unusually warm, and the pattern of warming over the past century strongly suggests an anthropogenic influence from greenhouse gas and sulphate aerosols. That was the message emerging from a week-long symposium examining climate variability over the past 1,000 years, which brought together results from a growing array of observational techniques, analyses of natural records and model results.
5 p.
Climate Variability and Change
Atmospheric Composition
Nature, August 24, 1995, Vol. 376, pp. 645-646
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"Climate Change: The Evidence Mounts Up" by Michael MacCracken was published in Nature on August 24, 1995 and summarized the presentations of a six-day symposium held 3-8 July 1995 on Climate Variability and Forcing Over the Past Millennium at the XXI General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Boulder CO.
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WCRP IPY activities
World Climate Research Program International Polar Year activities
http://wcrp.wmo.int
per
World Climate Research Program
http://wcrp.wmo.int
Geneva, Switzerland
World Cllimate Research Program
2008-03-11
eng
On 1 March 2007, the International Polar Year 2007/2008, one of the most ambitious coordinated international science programmes was launched. Many of the IPY leaders and participants are members of WCRP projects and groups. Climate issues are at the forefront of the majority of IPY studies.
This chart is a visualization of International Polar Year activities at the World Climate Research Program.
1 p.
climate change
climate research
International Polar Year
education
outreach
integrated data
ice
atmosphere
space
Antarctic
Arctic
ESDC
UNT
image_poster
image
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Our Changing Planet: The Fiscal Year 2003 U.S. Global Change Research Program and Climate Change Research Initiative
Our Changing Planet
A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Secretary of Commerce. Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Evans, Donald L.
Secretary of Energy. Vice Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Abraham, Spencer
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Secretary, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration. Chair, National Science and Technology Policy Council
per
Marburger, John H.
Washington, DC
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2002
eng
This document is a supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2003 Budget. The report describes the activities and plans of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The report also describes the start-up activities for the U.S. Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI), established by President George W. Bush to accelerate research on climate change. The CCRI supplements the ongoing USGCRP work by providing focus and targeting resources to areas where significant 2 to 5 year improvements in decision-relevant information are possible.
123 p. : col. ill.
climate variability and change
human contributions and responses
decision-support resources
climate variability and change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11979/
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ocp2003.pdf
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NOAA Updates What Defines Normal Temperature
http://www.noaa.gov
org
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
http://www.noaa.gov
Washington, DC 20230
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2001-09-06
eng
Normal temperatures and precipitation levels for your area may have changed as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center recently released new 'normal' data for about 8,000 weather stations. The data defines the normal temperature at locations across the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and U.S. Pacific Islands. These data are used as a benchmark for weather forecasters to calculate day-to-day temperature and rainfall departures from typical levels and are also used by business, government and industry for planning, design and operations.
1 page.
Climate Variability and Change
Meteorology
Climate Data
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11976/
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2001/sep01/noaa01092.html
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Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972
Ocean Dumping Act
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
eng
The Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA), also referred to as the Ocean Dumping Act, generally prohibits transportation of material from the United States for the purpose of ocean dumping; transportation of material from anywhere for the purpose of ocean dumping by U.S. agencies or U.S.-flagged vessels; dumping of material transported from outside the United States into the U.S. territorial sea. A permit is required to deviate from these prohibitions.
Under MPRSA, the standard fro permit issuance is whether the dumping will "unreasonably degrade or endanger" human health, welfare, or the marine environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is charged with developing ocean dumping criteria to be used in evaluating permit applications.
68 p.
oceans
water quality
policy
waste management
ocean dumping
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11973/
http://epw.senate.gov/mprsa72.pdf
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Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
per
Acuna-Soto, Rodolfo
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
per
Stahle, David W.
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
per
Cleaveland, Malcolm K.
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
per
Therrell, Matthew D.
http://www.cdc.gov
Atlanta, GA
Center for Disease Control
2002
eng
The native population collapse in 16th century Mexico was a demographic catastrophe with one of the highest death rates in history. Recently developed tree-ring evidence has allowed the levels of precipitation to be reconstructed for north central Mexico, adding to the growing body of epidemiologic evidence and indicating that the 1545 and 1576 epidemics of cocoliztli (Nahuatl for "pest") were indigenous hemorrhagic fevers transmitted by rodent hosts and aggravated by extreme drought conditions.
5 p. : ill.
environmental health
Dendrochronology
Epidemiology
drought
Paleoclimatology
infectious diseases
Mexico
1519
1576
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no4/01-0175.htm
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Dust from Africa Leads to Large Toxic Algae Blooms in Gulf of Mexico, Study Finds. [Press release].
www.nasa.gov
org
NASA News
www.nasa.gov
Greenbelt, MD 20771
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2001-08-28
eng
This press release summarizes the findings of a new study. Saharan dust clouds travel thousands of miles and fertilize the water off the West Florida coast with iron, which kicks off blooms of toxic algae. The research was partially funded by a NASA grant as part of ECOHAB: Florida (Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms), a multi-disciplinary research project designed to study harmful algae.
1 p.
global water cycle
Algae blooms
toxicology
atmospheric composition
ecology
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Africa
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/2001/01-85.htm
Release No: 01-85
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Spying Global Warming in the Desert? [News release].
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service
per
Comis, Don
http://www.usda.gov
Washington, DC
United States Department of Agriculture
2001-08-27
eng
This brief news article provides preliminary evidence that global warming may have sped up the pace at which grasslands are being overtaken by mesquite, creosote and other shrubs at desert sites around the world.
1 p.
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desertification
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How Will Climate Change Affect the Mid-Atlantic Region?
www.epa.gov
org
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3
www.epa.gov
Philadelphia, PA
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3
2001-06
eng
Average temperature has risen 1 degree F over the last century in the Mid-Atlantic Region as well as across the globe. Climate science is developing rapidly and many studies project additional warming. Although the future is uncertain and difficult to predict, our best science suggests the following changes are likely.
The Mid-Atlantic Region will be somewhat warmer and perhaps wetter, resulting in a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans. Human activities that release heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere
will continue to accelerate the observed warming trend. Climate change will compound existing stresses from population density and development. The region's overall economy is quite resilient, but impacts will be more severe for some economic activities and localities.
2 pages.
Climate Variability and Change
Ecology
Human Contributions and Responses
Biodiversity
Forestry
ESDC
UNT
text
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Report of the Ninth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 9th Session, Geneva, Switzerland, 29 - 30 June 1993
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1993-06
eng
The Panel at its ninth session would set the stage for the assessment process envisaged over the next two years. The panels also stressed the need for a high scientific and technical standard which would ensure the best information to decision-makers. The panel discussed and adopted various draft reports, including the draft work plan of working groups.
environmental change
Carbon cycle
human contributions and responses
climate change
environmental laws
atmosphere
ESDC
UNT
text
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http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session09/ninth-session-report.pdf
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Report of the Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 6th Session, Geneva, Switzerland, 29-31 October 1991
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1991-10
eng
The Sixth session of the IPCC approved the report of the fifth session and agreed on many issues including establishing an IPCC Task force to make proposals on the future structure of IPCC. The Panel also decided on an interim expansion of the IPCC Bureau.
81 p.
environmental change
Greenhouse Gas
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
climate change
global warming
ozone assessment
emissions
climate modelling
climate observation
ESDC
UNT
text
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http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11892/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session06/sixth-session-report.pdf
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Report of the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 5th Session, Geneva, Switzerland, 13-15 March 1991
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1991-10
eng
The Fifth session of the IPCC discussed on the IPCC work program for 1991 and beyond and provided objective analysis of scientific and technical assessment of the issue of climate change. The Panel also approved the report of the fourth session.
environmental change
Greenhouse Gas
human contributions and responses
climate variability
global warming
Ozone assessment
emissions
climate change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11891/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session05/fifth-session-report.pdf
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Report of the Eleventh Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 11th Session, Rome, Italy, 11-15 December 1995
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1995-12
eng
The panel discussed and adopted various draft reports including the report of the tenth session and the IPCC Synthesis Report. The Panel also accepted contributions of Working Group to its Second Assessment. Among other issues, the Panel considered the budget and assessed the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Program (IPCC NGGIP). Also, special report on Land use Change and Forestry provided
18 p.
environmental change
Greenhouse Gas
decision support resources
human contributions and responses
climate change
environmental policy
ESDC
UNT
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http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session11/eleventh-session-report.pdf
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Report of the Fourth Session of the WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 4th Session, Sundsvall, Sweden, 27-30 August 1990
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1990-08
eng
The Fourth session of the IPCC highlighted that developed (industrialized) countries are responsible for some 75% of the total emission of carbon dioxide and a clear commitment to stabilize and then reduce greenhouse gas emission is necessary. Also, the Panel emphasized the need for massive expansion of research and development in new energy sources and more efficient resource management procedures.
discussed on the IPCC work program for 1991 and beyond and provided objective analysis of scientific and technical assessment of the issue of climate change. The Panel also approved the report of the fourth session.
environmental change
Greenhouse Gas
human contributions and responses
climate change
global warming
Ozone assessment
emissions
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energy
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11890/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session04/fourth-session-report.pdf
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IPCC-6
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Report of the Twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 12th Session, Mexico City, Mexico 11-13 September 1996
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1996-09
eng
The main actions of the Panel includes acceptence of revised 1996 IPCC guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, the election of the Chairman-elect, and approval of the program and budget for 1997.
environmental change
technology transfer
atmosphere
climate change
human contributions and responses
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Program (IPCC NGGIP)
land use
land cover change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11898/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session12/twelfth-session-report.pdf
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IPCC-XIII
[IPCC-13]
(Approved at the Fourteenth Session, Vienna, 1-3 October 1998)
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Report of the Eighth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 8th Session, Harare, Zimbabwe, 11-13 November 1992
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1992-11
eng
The major tasks of the eighth session of the IPCC included deciding on the future IPCC structure, and agreeing on work plans of working Groups and Subgroups. The panel discussed and adopted various draft reports.
62 p.
environmental change
Greenhouse Gas
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
climate change
climate predictions
meteorological events
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11894/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session08/eighth-session-report.pdf
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Report of the Thirteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 13th Session, Maldives, 22 & 25-28 September 1997
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1997-09
eng
The Panel approved various draft reports including the draft report of the 12th session. The Panel noted the draft decision paper (introduced by Dr. Watson) on the TAR, and after extensive discussions and amendments, the panel approved the decision line by line. The panel deferred the decision on the adoption procedure for the the report underlying the summary for policymakers of the synthesis report.
environmental change
renewable energy
Atmosphere
climate variability
human contributions and responses
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Program (IPCC NGGIP)
land use
forests
land cover change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session13/thirteenth-session-report.pdf
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[IPCC-13]
(Approved at the Fourteenth Session, Vienna, 1-3 October 1998)
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Report of the Tenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 10th Session, Nairobi, Kenya, 10-12 November 1994
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1994-11
eng
The Panel at its tenth session called on partnerships and collaboration to address climate change, and stress the importance of involving experts from developing countries and countries with economies in transition in the activities of the Panel. The panel discussed and adopted various draft reports, and identified the following three areas on which IPCC needed to focus in its future work: Identification of gaps and uncertainties, preparations for the Third Assessment Report, and the development of methodologies on greenhouse gas inventories.
75 p. : ill.
environmental change
Greenhouse Gas
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
climate change
climate predictions
metrological events
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11896/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session10/tenth-session-report.pdf
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IPCC-X
[IPCC-10]
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Report of the Seventh Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 7th Session, Geneva, Switzerland, 10-12 February 1992
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1992-02
eng
The primary objective of the Seventh session of the IPCC was to agree on the contents of the 1992 IPCC Supplement. Accordingly, the panel was informed of the results of the session of the IPCC Task Force on IPCC Structure and expressed its view on the future of its work in the last section of the 1992 Supplement (which would be further developed at its 8th's session.
6 p.
environmental change
Greenhouse Gas
decision-Support resources
human contributions and responses
climate variability
climate change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11893/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session07/seventh-session-report.pdf
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ark:/67531/metadc11893
IPCC-VII
[IPCC-7]
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Understanding ecosystems
org
British Antactic Survey
Swindon, UK
National Environment Research Council
2003
eng
Plants and animals live in environments which change over different periods of time. Some changes happen each year with the seasons, whilst others take hundreds or even millions of years. As these changes occur, living organisms respond in different ways. To cope with the changing seasons, individuals can change their physiology or behaviour, for instance by hibernating or migration. In response to longer-scale change, species may adapt through evolutionary change. If they cannot, they must either move away or become extinct.
2 p.
Ecosystems
Antarctica
Polar studies
Climate Variability and Change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11965/
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/teacher_resources/information/research/ecosystems.php
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Climate change
org
British Antactic Survey
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
Swindon, UK
National Environment Research Council
2003
eng
The Earth's climate has not been constant over geological time. This record is contained in ice, which has built up as snowfall accumulated in distinct yearly layers. Pockets of air trapped between the snow crystals contain traces of past atmospheres, which in turn tell us about the climate at the time the snow formed. Glaciologists collect this record by drilling ice cores and then use sensitive chemical techniques to analyse the layers.
2 p.
Climate Variability and Change
Paleoclimatology
Antarctica
Antarctica
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/teacher_resources/information/research/climate.php
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Nuclear Waste Policy Act
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
1983-01-07
eng
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) supports the use of deep geologic repositories for the safe storage and/or disposal of radioactive waste. The Act establishes procedures to evaluate and select sites for geologic repositories and for the interaction of state and federal governments. It also provides a timetable of key milestones the federal agencies must meet in carrying out the program.
The NWPA assigns the Department of Energy (DOE) the responsibility to site, build, and operate a deep geologic repository for the disposal of high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel. It directs EPA to develop standards for protection of the general environment from offsite releases of radioactive material in repositories. The Act directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to license DOE to operate a repository only if it meets EPA's standards and all other relevant requirements.
93 p.
policy
radioactive waste disposal
waste management
radioactive waste storage
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11977/
http://epw.senate.gov/nwpa82.pdf
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IPCC Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations, CGER-I015-'94
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Finland
per
Carter, Timothy R.
UK
per
Parry, Martin L.
Japan
per
Harasawa, Hadeo
Japan
per
Nishioka, Shuzo
Oxford, UK
org
Words and Publications
London, UK
University College London, Department of Geography
Tsukuba, Japan
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies
1994
eng
This guideline provides a means for assessing the impacts of potential climate change and of evaluating appropriate adaptations.
x, 59 p. : col. ill.
Climate Variability and Change
Human Contributions and Responses
Decision-Support Resources
Climate impact assessment
Climate impact assessment
Adaptation strategy
ESDC
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Our Changing Planet: The FY 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program
Our Changing Planet
org
Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Science and Technology Council
Washington, DC 20502
Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy
2000-09
eng
This report, prepared under the auspices of the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), highlights the Program's recent research and describes future plans and goals. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1989 and authorized by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The first edition of Our Changing Planet was transmitted to the Congress as a supplement to the FY1990 budget. In just over a decade, the USGCRPhas generated remarkable improvements to our knowledge of Earth's global-scale environmental processes and helped identify and explain the causes and consequences of a series of global environmental changes, including ozone depletion and climate change.
44 p. : col. ill.
climate variability and change
human contributions and responses
enivoronmental policy
water cycle
Carbon cycle
ecosystems
ESDC
UNT
text
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Native Peoples-Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop Final Report: Circles of Wisdom
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
per
Maynard, Nancy, G.
org
U.S. Global Change Research Program
http://www.usgcrp.gov
Washington, DC
U.S. Global Change Research Program
1998
eng
The Native Peoples-Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop was held on October 28 through November 01, 1998, as part of a series of workshops being held around the U.S. to improve the understanding of the potential consequences of climate variability and change for the Nation. This workshop was specifically designed by Native Peoples to examine the impacts of climate change and extreme weather variability on Native Peoples and Native Homelands from an indigenous cultural and spiritual perspective and to develop recommendations as well as identify potential response actions. Native Peoples, with our spiritual traditions and long community histories of change, adaptation, and survival in specific regions, are providing a unique contribution to the assessment and understanding of climate change as well as to the development of sustainable economies in this country.
94 pages.
Climate Variability and Change
Human Contributions and Responses
Environmental Anthropology
Decision-Support Resources
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11974/
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Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008
A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and The Subcommittee on Global Change Research A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2008 Budget
Our Changing Planet
org
Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
org
National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
Washington, DC
U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
2007
eng
This report describes the activities and plans of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which incorporates the U.S. Global Change
Research Program, established under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, and the Climate Change Research Initiative, established by the President in 2001. CCSP coordinates and integrates scientific research on climate and global change supported by 13 participating departments and agencies of the U.S. Government.
The document describes a wide range of advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change, such as advances in understanding of climate change at high latitudes. It also describes progress on understanding the ongoing
and projected effects of climate change on nature and society, including the interconnected relationships between climate, forests, and wildfire. The document also describes how observational and predictive capabilities are being improved and used to create tools to
support decision making at local, regional, and national scales to cope with environmental variability and change.
vii, 212 p. : col.ill.
climate variability and change
laws and regulations
decision-support resources
ethics
atmospheric composition
water cycle
Carbon cycle
ecosystems
Climatic changes -- Research -- United States -- Periodicals.
Environmental policy -- United States -- Periodicals.
Climate Change Science Program (U.S.) -- Periodicals.
ESDC
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This document describes the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) for FY 2008. It provides a summary of the achievements of the program, an analysis of the progress made, and budgetary information. It thereby responds to the annual reporting requirements of the U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990 (Section 102, P. L. 101-606). It does not express any regulatory policies of the United States or any of its agencies, or make any findings of fact that could serve as predicates for regulatory action. Agencies must comply with required statutory and regulatory processes before they could rely on any statements in this document or by the CCSP as a basis for regulatory action.
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
Superfund Act
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
2002-12-31
eng
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act -- otherwise known as CERCLA or Superfund -- provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. Through CERCLA, EPA was given power to seek out those parties responsible for any release and assure their cooperation in the cleanup.
167 p.
environmental response
environmental disasters
industrial pollution
laws and regulations
hazardous waste
superfund sites
superfund
pollution
contamination
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Vision for the Program and Highlights of the Scientific Strategic Plan
org
Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Secretary of Energy. Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Abraham, Spencer
Secretary of Commerce. Vice Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Evans, Donald L.
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Secretary, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration. Chair, National Science and Technology Policy Council
per
Marburger, John H.
Washington D.C.
Climate Change Science Program and Subcomittee on Global Change Research
2003-07
eng
The vision document provides an overview of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) long-term strategic plan to enhance scientific understanding of global climate change.This document is a companion to the comprehensive Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program.
Climate Variability and Change
Human Contributions and Responses
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/stratplan2003/vision/ccsp-vision.pdf
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Selected Translated Abstracts of Chinese-Language Climate Change Publications
org
Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
per
Ge Quansheng
per
Zhang Peiyuan
per
Liu Xiuping
per
Zhang Xuequn
per
Chen Yuan
per
Peng Guitang
per
Zheng Jingyun
org
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Albany
per
Wei-Chyung Wang
org
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center,Oak Ridge National Laboratory
per
Robert M.Cushman
per
Marvel D.Burtis
Oak Ridge, TN
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National laboratory
1999-05
eng
chi
This report contains English-translated abstracts of important Chinese-language literature concerning global climate change for the years 1995-1998. This body of abstracts includes the topics of adaption, ancient climate change, climate variation, the East Asia monsoon, historical climate change, impacts, modeling, and radiation, and trace gas emission. In addition to the bibliographic citations and abstracts translated into English, this report presents the original citations and abstracts in Chinese. Author and title index are included to assist the reader in locating abstracts of particular interest.
xvii, 379 p.
paleoclimatology
climate variation
East Asia monsoon
historical climate change, impacts, modeling and radiation
trace-gas emission
ESDC
UNT
text
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http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/cdiac/cdiac117/cdiac11797.pdf
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Pollution Prevention Act of 1990
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
1990
eng
The Pollution Prevention Act focused industry, government, and public attention on reducing the amount of pollution through cost-effective changes in production, operation, and raw materials use. Opportunities for source reduction are often not realized because of existing regulations, and the industrial resources required for compliance, focus on treatment and disposal. Source reduction is fundamentally different and more desirable than waste management or pollution control.
Pollution prevention also includes other practices that increase efficiency in the use of energy, water, or other natural resources, and protect our resource base through conservation. Practices include recycling, source reduction, and sustainable agriculture.
10 p.
policy
source reduction
pollution
efficiency
recycling
sustainable agriculture
conservation
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11933/
http://epw.senate.gov/PPA90.pdf
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Report of the 25th Session of the IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Twenty Fifth Session, Port Louis, Mauritius, 26-28 April 2006
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2006-04
eng
Among other topics, the panel introduced a proposal for further work on emission scenarios, which was developed based on the recommendations of the Task Group on New Emission Scenarios, established following a decision by the Panel at its 23rd Session. In the plenary debate several countries expressed support for the proposal and some underlined the need to also cover the requirements of impact, adaptation and vulnerability studies, the importance of regional scenarios and developing country involvement in scenario development. Some concern was expressed that integrated scenarios may go beyond the scope of the IPCC. Different views were expressed about the IPCC role in scenario development, including the view that the IPCC should no longer itself commission or direct scenario development. The suggestion was also made to draw on the expertise of the Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Assessment (TGICA). It was recommended to take a clear decision on the future role of the IPCC and to focus in the further consultations on aspects where urgent decisions were required.
environmental laws
emission
economic dimensions
climate change
human contributions and responses
Greenhouse Gas
decision-support resources
ESDC
UNT
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Climate and Global Change Interagency Inventory Data Sheet
org
Climate Change Science Program
Washington, D.C.
Climate Change Science Program
2002-08-26
eng
The Climate and Global Change Interagency Inventory Data Sheet is a working document (dated August 2002) that includes information provided by federal agencies regarding their climate and global change research activities.
17 p.
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human contributions and responses
decision-support resources
ESDC
UNT
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Report of the 24th Session of the IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Twenty Fourth Session, Montreal, Canada, 26-28 September 2005
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2005-09
eng
The meeting highlighted recent progress in the work of the IPCC, in particular the completion of the two Special Reports on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System (SROC), and on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (SRCCS) and the preparations for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Among other speakers, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Mr Klaus Töpfer addressed the Session on the linkages between science and climate change policy and the increasing need for information from the IPCC. He reaffirmed UNEP's commitment to
the IPCC and supported early planning for the period beyond AR4.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), also addressed the Panel on the importance of the principles of impartiality, transparency, scientific authority and integrity for the past success of the IPCC, the linkages of WMO programmes and IPCC assessments, and WMO's commitment to the IPCC.
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Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System (SROC)
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (SRCCS)
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Japan-U.S. Joint Message on Climate Change Negotiations
org
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Kasumigaseki 2-2-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8919, Japan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2009-11
eng
A joint message on Climate Change Negotiations between Japan and U.S.
1 p.
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sustainability
human contributions and responses
Copenhagen Summit
2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Japan
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Draft Report of the 28th Session of the IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Twenty-Eighth Session, Budapest, [Bulgaria], 9-10 April 2008
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Director, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
http://www.ipcc
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2008-04
eng
The focus of this meeting was on the Future of the IPCC, including key aspects of the future IPCC work programme and the future structure of the IPCC Bureau and the TFB. The Panel was also invited to consider of the outcome of the Scoping Meeting for a possible Special Report on renewable energy and a proposal for the use of the Funds from the Nobel Peace Prize. The Chair informed the Panel about action taken by the 37th Session of the IPCC Bureau (Budapest, 7-8 April 2008) concerning the finalization of the Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Thirtieth Session, Antalya, Turkey, 21-23 April 2009
org
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Director, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
http://www.ipcc.ch
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2009-04
eng
This meeting focused on the future of the IPCC, in particular the scoping of the 5th Assessment Report. Among other isues, the Panel considered the outcome of the Scoping Meeting for a possible Special Report on "Extreme events and disasters: managing the risks", and of the Expert Meeting on "Alternative common metrics to calculate the CO2 equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases".
[44] p. : ill.
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UNT
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Report of the 27th Session of the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Twenty Seventh Session, Valencia, Spain, 12-17 November 2007
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007-11
eng
The Twenty-Seventh Session focused on the adoption and approval of the draft Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). as indicated in the agenda, a discussion paper about the future of the IPCC was introduced, among other items that required consideration and decision by the Panel.
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Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2010
A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research: A Supplement to the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2010
Our Changing Planet
org
U.S. Global Change Research Program and Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Secretary of Commerce. Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration.
per
Gutierrez, Carlos M.
Secretary of Energy. Vice Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Bodman, Samuel W.
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Director, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Marburger, John H.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
per
Kaye, Jack
U.S. Geological Survey
per
Armstrong, Thomas
U.S. Agency for International Development
per
Breed, William
Department of Health and Human Services
per
Dearry, Allen
Department of Agriculture
per
Hohenstein, William
Department of Commerce
per
Karl, Thomas
National Science Foundation
per
Killeen, Timothy
Department of Transportation
per
Lawson, Linda
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Neal, Patrick
Department of Energy
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Palmisano, Anna
Department of State
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Pershing, Jonathan
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Scheraga, Joel
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Vincent, Charles
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The report describes the activities and plans of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which incorporates the U.S. Global Change Research Program established under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, and the Climate Change Research Initiative that was established by the President in 2001. CCSP coordinates and integrates scientific research on climate and global change supported by 13 participating departments and agencies of the U.S. Government. The document highlights recent advances and progress supported by CCSP-participating agencies in each of the program's research and observational elements, as called for in the Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program released in July 2003, and later modified in the 2008 CCSP Revised Research Plan. The document also describes how observational and predictive capabilities are being improved and used to create tools to support decisionmaking at local, regional, and national scales to cope with environmental variability and change.
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A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research: A Supplement to the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2007
Our Changing Planet
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U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Secretary of Commerce. Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration.
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Gutierrez, Carlos M.
Secretary of Energy. Vice Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Bodman, Samuel W.
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Director, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Marburger III, John H.
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U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2006-11
eng
This Fiscal Year 2007 edition of Our Changing Planet describes a wide range of new and emerging observational capabilities which, combined with the Climate Change Science Program’s analytical work, lead to advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change. The report highlights progress in exploring the uses and limitations of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability, and documents activities to promote cooperation between the U.S. scientific community and its worldwide counterparts.
vii, 263 p. : col. ill.
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Draft Report of the 29th Session of the IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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2008-09
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The focus of this meeting was on the future of the IPCC, in particular the scoping of the 5th Assessment Report. The Panel was also invited to consider the outcome of the Scoping Meeting for a possible Special Report on "Extreme events and disasters: managing the risks", and of the Expert Meeting on "Alternative common metrics to calculate the CO2 equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases".
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Draft Report of the 26th Session of the IPCC
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org
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org
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Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007-05
eng
The IPCC Panel at its 26th session called on partnerships and collaboration to address climate change, as well as a better understanding of social and economic dimensions of mitigation and adaptation. The Panel recalls its support for decoupling the climate modeling work from the emission scenario development work, in order to allow climate modelers a quick start with their work after the completion of the AR4. Also, the Panel now requests the Steering Committee on New Scenarios to prepare a few benchmark concentration scenarios through the IPCC Expert Meeting 19-22 September 2007 in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. These benchmark concentration scenarios should be compatible with the full range of stabilization, mitigation and baseline emission scenarios available in the current scientific literature.
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Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2006
A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research: A Supplement to the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2006
Our Changing Planet
org
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Secretary of Commerce. Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration.
per
Gutierrez, Carlos M.
Secretary of Energy. Vice Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Bodman, Samuel W.
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Director, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Marburger III, John H.
http://www.climatescience.gov/
Washington, DC
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2005-11
eng
This Fiscal Year 2006 edition of Our Changing Planet describes a wide range of new and emerging observational capabilities which, combined with the Climate Change Science Program’s analytical work, lead to advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change. The report highlights progress being made to explore the uses and limitations of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability, and documents activities to promote cooperation between the U.S. scientific community and its worldwide counterparts.
vi, 215 p. : col. ill.
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More El Niños May Mean More Rainfall Extremes
NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
org
Earth Observatory
www.nasa.gov
Washington, DC
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
2001-01-16
eng
Researchers at NASA and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), studying changes in tropical precipitation patterns, have noted a higher frequency of El Niños and La Niñas over the last 21 years. In addition, when either of those events occur, the world can expect more months with unusually high or low precipitation with droughts more common than floods over land areas.
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Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005
A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research: A Supplement to the President's Budget for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005
Our Changing Planet
org
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Secretary of Commerce. Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration.
per
Evans, Donald L.
Secretary of Energy. Vice Chair, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Abraham, Spencer
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Director, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
per
Marburger III, John H.
http://www.climatescience.gov/
Washington, DC
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
2004-07
eng
This edition of Our Changing Planet includes a review of the Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) from 2003 and outlines how the CCSP is moving forward to implement the Strategic Plan during FY 2004 and FY 2005. As a part of this implementation, the report announces the production of 21 scientific syntheses and assessments on a range of topics to support informed discussion of climate variability and associated issues by decision makers and the public.
[iv], 150 p. : col. ill.
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Oil Pollution Act of 1990
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
1990
eng
The Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 streamlined and strengthened EPA's ability to prevent and respond to catastrophic oil spills. A trust fund financed by a tax on oil is available to clean up spills when the responsible party is incapable or unwilling to do so. The OPA requires oil storage facilities and vessels to submit to the Federal government plans detailing how they will respond to large discharges. EPA has published regulations for above ground storage facilities; the Coast Guard has done so for oil tankers. The OPA also requires the development of Area Contingency Plans to prepare and plan for oil spill response on a regional scale.
66 p.
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The ozone hole
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk
org
British Antactic Survey
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
Swindon, UK
National Environment Research Council
2003
eng
Discovery of the hole in the ozone layer showed that human activity can have major, and often unexpected impacts on the planet. The destruction of ozone in the stratosphere high above the planet's surface has been brought about as the result of the widespread use of chemicals which under normal conditions are chemically inert and harmless
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Remarks by Administrator O'Keefe at the Earth Observation Summit
NASA Earth Observatory
NASA Administrator
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O'Keefe, Sean
[NASA Earth Observatory]
2003-07-31
eng
Remarks by NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe at the 2003 Earth Observation Summit in Washington, DC. The purpose of the summit was to promote the development of a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained Earth observation system or systems among governments and the international community to understand and address global environmental and economic challenges, and also to
begin a process to develop a conceptual framework and implementation plan for building this integrated Earth observation system.
When the space age dawned it was clear that the ability to propel robotic spacecraft and humans beyond the gravity of our home planet would open up untold avenues of exploration and discovery throughout the Solar System and beyond. What was not understood at the time was how comprehensive observations of the Earth system from space would lead to a significant new field of scientific inquiry.
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Report of the Nineteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 19th Session, Geneva, Switzerland, 17 - 20 April 2002
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
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2003-02
eng
Different speakers addressed the Panel. Among other decisions of the Nineteenth Session of the IPCC: the Panel decided that well before the next round of elections the Chair would bring to the Panel a proposal describing the rules and procedures to be adopted by the IPCC when conducting elections. The Panel also decided on the terms of reference, draft table of content and draft workplan for developing definitions for degradation of forest and devegetation of other vegetation types, and methodological options to inventory and report on emissions resulting from these activities.
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Report of the Sixteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 16th Session, Montreal, Canada, 1-8 May 2000
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
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2000-05
eng
This meeting focused on the future of the IPCC. Among other isues, the Panel considered the budget and assessed the National greenhouse gas inventories program (IPCC NGGIP).
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Report of the Fifteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 15th Session, San Jose, Costa Rica, 15 -18 April 1999
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
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1999-04
eng
The Panel discussed and adopted a number of draft reports including the budget. A special report on Land use Change and Forestry provided. The Panel also assessed the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Program (IPCC NGGIP).
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Report of the 21st Session of the IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Twenty First Session, Vienna, Austria, 3 and 6-7 November 2003
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
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2003-11
eng
The Chair gave his opening address, outlining the issues faced by the Panel in preparing for the Fourth Assessment Report and highlighted the rigorous efforts undertaken thus far in scoping the structure and contents of the report. The Panel noted that the preparation of an AR4 SYR that would meet the expectations of most delegations would require extensive consultation and the early and full commitment of many of those who would also be involved in the preparation of the individual Working Group (WG) reports. It noted
that the AR4 SYR could: Bring together the main messages from the individual WG reports: Synthesise cross-cutting information from the individual WG reports, including the AR4 cross-cutting themes: Provide a top-down perspective for decision makers on issues covered by the AR4: Produce an overview of the key conclusions of AR4 in non-technical and readily translatable language: Re-assess the policy relevant questions addressed in the TAR SYR.
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Report of the Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 14th Session, Vienna, Austria, 1-3 October 1998
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1998-10
eng
The Panel considered a number of issues and approved various draft reports. Among other agenda items, the panel assessed the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Program (IPCC NGGIP), and IPCC special report on ,Land use, Land Use Change and Forestry.
26 p. :
environmental change
renewable energy
Global Atmosphere
climate change
human contributions and responses
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Program (IPCC NGGIP)
land use
forests
land cover change
ESDC
UNT
text
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2010-04-15, 10:22:40
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2010-04-15T10:02:00Z
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Report of the 22nd Session of the IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Twenty Second Session, New Delhi, India, 9-11 November 2004
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2004-11
eng
The session opened after a lighting of lamp ceremony by H.E. Mr Thiru A. Raja,
Minister of Environment and Forests, India and other dignitaries. Following this a number of speakers noted
the significance of ensuring that the findings of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) reach the public at large,
and the need for AR4 to highlight research in developing countries. UNEP Executive Director highlighted the significance of the work of the IPCC for related policy processes, and commended the increased
involvement by women and developing country authors in the AR4. Mr Halldor Thorgeirsson highlighted the importance placed by the UNFCCC on climate monitoring, the ongoing revision of the greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting guidelines, and good practice guidance on land use, land-use change and forestry.
environmental change
Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System (SROC)
climate monitoring
climate change
human contributions and responses
Greenhouse Gas
decision-support resources
environmental laws
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11908/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session22/final-report.pdf
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IPCC-XXII
[IPCC-22]
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dalemneh
2010-04-15, 10:02:00
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Report of the Eighteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 18th Session, Wembley, UK, 23-29 September 2001
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2001-09
eng
Different speakers addressed the Panel. Among other issues, the Eighteenth Session of the IPCC decided that its work must continue to maintain its high scientific and technical standards, independence, transparency and geographic balance, to ensure a balanced reporting of viewpoints and to be policy relevant but not policy prescriptive or policy driven.
27 p. :
environmental change
renewable energy
emissions
climate variability
human contributions and responses
Policy
decision-support resources
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11904/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session18/final-report.pdf
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IPCC-XVIII
[IPCC-18]
[date.harvested: 2009-09-10]
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metadc11904
DC
ark:/67531/metadc11904
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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2010-04-15, 10:08:16
False
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2010-04-15T10:04:15Z
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Report of the 23rd Session of the IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Twenty Third Session, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 6-8 April 2005
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2005-09
eng
In the context of this agenda item discussion took place on the management plan for the AR4 SYR. The Panel agreed that further consideration will be given by the Bureau to aspects of arrangements for management of the AR4 SYR, and progress reported to the
Panel.
environmental change
Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System (SROC)
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (SRCCS)
climate change
human contributions and responses
Greenhouse Gas
decision-support resources
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11909/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session23/final-report.pdf
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IPCC-XXIII
[IPCC-23]
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metadc11909
DC
ark:/67531/metadc11909
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
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2010-04-15, 10:04:15
False
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2010-04-15T10:05:45Z
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Report of the Twentieth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 20th Session, Paris, France, 19-21 February 2003
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2003-02
eng
This meeting focused on the future of the IPCC and discussed on various reports. The Deputy Executive-Director of the UNEP, addressed the Session on key climate and environmental change issues and informed the session about relevant decisions of the 22nd session of the UNEP Governing Council. Among other speakers, Mr Taka Hiraishi, co-chair of the TFB, introduced a report on the development of the Emissions Factors Data Base (EFDB). He
noted, inter alia, that the current aim is to develop a recognised library of emissions factors, and that the search for members of the editorial board is not yet complete.
39 p. :
environmental change
renewable energy
emissions
climate change
human Contributions and Responses
Greenhouse Gas
decision-support resources
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11906/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session20/final-report.pdf
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IPCC-XX
[IPCC-20]
[date.harvested: 2009-09-10]
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metadc11906
DC
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2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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False
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2010-04-15, 10:05:45
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2010-04-15T10:14:16Z
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Report of the Seventeenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 17th Session, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 - 6 April, 2001
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
org
World Metrological Organization (WMO)
org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Geneva, Switzerland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2001-04
eng
Different speakers addressed the Panel, and some highlighted the importance of sound data for monitoring and predicting the climate system and noted with concern the decline in observational networks. Others emphasized the value of the scientific information provided by the IPCC for the Convention process and highlighted the need to integrate scientific assessments in sustainable development
consideration and to communicate with a wider audience.
environmental change
renewable energy
emissions
climate change
human contributions and responses
decision-support resources
environmental change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11903/
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session17/final-report.pdf
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IPCC-XVII
[IPCC-17]
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2010-04-15, 10:14:16
False
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Law of the People's Republic of China on Desert Prevention and Transformation
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
2001-08-31
eng
This Law was formulated in order to prevent desertification, to improve and reclaim desertified land, to protect the environment, and to promote a sustainable economy and society.
13 p.
Law of the People's Republic of China
desert prevention and transformation
desertification
land cover change
environmental management
environmental policy
laws and regulations
ecosystems
China
2002-01-01
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11922/
http://www.zhb.gov.cn/law/law/200312/t20031203_87413.htm
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The law was adopted at the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on Aug.31, 2001.
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2010-04-14, 10:26:14
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Law of the People's Republic of China on Conserving Energy
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
National People's Congress
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
1997-11-01
eng
This Law is formulated in order to promote energy conservation by all sectors of society, increase energy efficiency to benefit economic development, protect the environment, ensure national economic and social development, and meet the people's needs in everyday life.
11 p.
Law of the People's Republic of China
conserving energy
laws and regulations
energy conservation
energy
conservation
energy policy
environmental policy
China
1997-11-01
2007-10-28
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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False
dalemneh
2010-04-14, 10:26:53
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2010-04-14T10:16:13Z
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Law of the People's Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
1991-06-29
eng
This Law was established for the purpose of the prevention and control of soil erosion; the protection and rational utilization of water and soil resources; the mitigation of flooding, drought, and sandstorm; the improvement of ecological environment and the development of production.
10 p.
Law of the People's Republic of China
water and soil conservation
water conservation
soil conservation
resource management
environmental mangement
environmental hazards
environmental protection
laws and regulations
environmental policy
China
1991-06-29
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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False
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2010-04-14, 10:16:13
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2010-04-27T21:42:11Z
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Biodiversité: Quelle Recherche Dans 15 Ans?: Enjeux, Chercheurs, Contextes
http://www.gis-ifb.org/
org
Institut Français de la Biodiversité
http://www.gis-ifb.org/
Paris, France
Institut Français de la Biodiversité
http://www.diversitas-international.org/
Paris, France
DIVERSITAS
2006-10
fre
Proceedings of a meeting of the French Institute of Biodiversity (IFB), setting a course of research for the next fifteen years. The IFB, composed of government agencies, research organizations, and NGOs, is a scientific interest group promoting scientific research in biodiversity. The IFB is devoted to coordinating research on biodiversity in all natural and social sciences, to promoting biodiversity research at the national, European, and international levels, and to disseminating knowledge and providing educational outreach to the general public.
89 p.
biodiversity
ecology
catural history museums
sustainable development
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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http://www.diversitas-international.org/docs/diversitas/Journees%20IFB_Actes_2006-12.pdf
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mphillips
2010-04-27, 21:42:11
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2010-03-31T17:22:36Z
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Report of Planning Workshop on MAIRS Mountain Zone Implementation
MAIRS Working Paper Series
MAIRS Working Paper Series # 3
per
Manton, Michael
per
Ailikun
http://www.mairs-essp.org
Beijing, China
International Program Office, The Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study. Instute for Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2007-06
eng
Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS) is an IRS research program over monsoon Asia under START and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). It was established to address questions about the coupled human and environment system in the monsoon Asia region. The vision of MAIRS is to significantly advance understanding of the interactions between the human and natural components of the overall environment in the monsoon Asian region and implications for the global earth system, in order to support strategies for sustainable
development. Regional-scale studies of global change provide the knowledge base for undertaking vulnerability analyses, identification of hotspots of risk and studies of environmental degradation which are crucial for the sustainable development. Regions may manifest significantly different environmental dynamics, and changes in regional biophysical, biogeochemical and anthropogenic components may produce considerably different consequences for the earth system at the global scale. Regions are not closed systems and thus the linkages between regional changes and the global earth system are crucial.
This specific report focuses on Planning Workshop on MAIRS Mountain Zone Implementation that held in China. Integrated Regional Studies (IRSs) should have relevance for people living in the regions and should provide a sound scientific basis for the sustainable development of the countries in the regions, and IRSs are also important from an earth system science perspective.
46 p.
climate variability and change
land use and land cover change
ecosystems
watersheds
Asia
Himalayas
Tibetan Plateau
glaciers
mountains
monsoons
biogeochemical cycle
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11928/
http://www.mairs-essp.org/UserFiles/File/MAIRS%20Mountain%20Report.pdf
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2010-03-31, 17:22:36
False
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2010-04-14T10:56:52Z
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Our Changing Planet: The FY 2002 U.S. Global Change Research Program
Our Changing Planet
org
Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Science and Technology Council
National Science Foundation
per
Leinen, Margaret
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
per
Asrar, Ghassem
Department of Energy
per
Anderson, Margot
U.S. Geological Survey
per
Groat, Charles (Chip)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
per
Hall, J. Michael
Department of Agriculture
per
Hohenstein, William
Smithsonian Institution
per
Neale, Patrick
Department of Energy
per
Patrinos, Aristides
Department of State
per
Reifsnyder, Daniel A.
Department of Defense
per
Saalfeld, Fred
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
per
Schonwalder, Christopher
Environmental Protection Agency
per
Slimak, Michael
Office of Science and Technology Policy
per
Conard, Susan G.
Office of Management and Budget
per
Isakowitz, Steven
Office of Management and Budget
per
Horrigan, Sarah
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
per
Nelson, Cynthia
http://www.gcrio.org
Palisades, New York
[U.S.] Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)
2001-09
eng
This document, which is produced annually, describes the activities and plans of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which was established in 1989 and authorized by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990. Strong bipartisan support for this inter-agency program has resulted in more than a decade's worth of scientific accomplishment. "Because there is considerable uncertainty in current understanding of how the climate system varies naturally and reacts to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, current estimates of the magnitude of future warming should be regarded as tentative and subject to future adjustments (either upward or downward). Reducing the wide range of uncertainty inherent in current model predictions of global climate change will require major advances in understanding and modeling of both (1) the factors that determine atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and (2) the so-called 'feedbacks' that determine the sensitivity of the climate system to a prescribed increase in greenhouse gases. There is also a pressing need for a global system designed for monitoring climate. Climate projections will always be far from perfect. Confidence limits and probabilistic information, with their basis, should always be considered as an integral part of the information that climate scientists provide to policy- and decision-makers. Without them, the IPCC SPM [Summary for Policymakers] could give the impression that the science of global warming is 'settled,' even though many uncertainties still remain. The emission scenarios used by the IPCC provide a good example. Human dimensions will almost certainly alter emissions over the next century. Because we cannot predict either the course of human populations, technology, or societal transitions with any clarity, the actual greenhouse gas emissions could either be greater or less than the IPCC scenarios. Without an understanding of the sources and degree of uncertainty, decision makers could fail to define the best ways to deal with the serious issue of global warming.
74 p. : col. ill.
climate variability and change
global water cycle
ecosystems
human contributions and responses
atmospheric composition
Carbon cycle
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11929/
http://www.gcrio.org/ocp2002/OCP2002_all.pdf
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Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, P.R. China
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
1984-05-11
eng
chi
This Law is formulated for the purpose of preventing and controlling water pollution, protecting and improving the environment, safeguarding human health, ensuring the effective use of water resources and facilitating the development of socialist modernization.
14 p.
Law of the People's Republic of China
water pollution
environmental management
environmental laws
waste management
environmental policy
environmental regulations
China
1984-11-01
ESDC
UNT
public
pd
text
text
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This is a redistributed document of the original edition of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution.
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metadc11926
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dalemneh
2010-04-15, 10:47:22
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Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
2000-04-29
eng
This Law is formulated for the purpose of preventing and controlling atmospheric pollution, protecting and improving the environment for a healthy society and ecology, and promoting the development of a sustainable economy and society.
16 p.
Law of the People's Republic of China
prevention and control of atmospheric pollution
atmospheric composition
environmental management
atmospheric pollution
laws and regulations
health
environmental policy
China
2000-09-01
ESDC
UNT
text
text
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Adopted at the Fifteenth Meeting of Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on April 29, 2000; promulgated by the President of the People's Republic of China on the same date, effective as of September 1, 2000
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A Curious Pacific Wave
http://science.nasa.gov
org
Science@NASA
http://science.nasa.gov
Washington, DC
NASA
2002-03-05
eng
This brief article discusses about a massive swell of water that was buffeting South America. Kelvin waves are warm bumps in the Pacific Ocean, characterized by a gentle yet massive swell of warm water. Usually not much happens when a Kelvin wave arrives -- beach combers experience a bit of extra rain, perhaps, and slightly warmer surf. Nevertheless, scientists pay careful attention to them because these gentle waves occasionally herald something far more powerful: the next El Niño.
4 p. : col. ill., maps
climate variability and change
meteorology
El Niño
Kelvin waves
2002
South America
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11830/
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/05mar_kelvinwave.htm
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Climate Change and Human Health, USGCRP Seminar, 10 July 1995.
USGCRP Seminar
U.S. Global Change Research Program Seminar: What roles do climate change play in the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases i humans and animals? What changes have already been observed? What changes could occur in the future?
Cambridge Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA
per
Epstein, Paul R.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Global Change Research Program
1995-07-10
eng
In this USGRP Seminar, Dr. Epstein discusses the implications of climate change and the emergence of diseases and viruses such as the hantavirus, dengue fever, ebola, cholera, malaria, and eastern equine encephalitis. These signals of global change can be costly to health, commerce, tourism, and transportation.
2 p.
climate variability and change
human contributions and responses
Infectious diseases
ESDC
UNT
public
pd
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11838/
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/seminars/950710SM.html
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ark:/67531/metadc11838
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2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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dalemneh
2010-04-08, 13:47:49
False
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2010-10-14T16:16:51Z
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Climate Change 1995: IPCC Second Assessment Report
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
1995 Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.unep.org/
United Nations Environment Programme
1995
eng
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) completed its Second Assessment Report in December 1995. The major conclusions are that greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing, the global climate has been changing, and will likely continue to change, probably due to human influence.
viii, 63 p. : col. ill.
climate variability and change
human contributions and responses
environmental issues
ecosystems
decision-support resources
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11834/
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/climate-changes-1995/ipcc-2nd-assessment/2nd-assessment-en.pdf
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ark:/67531/metadc11834
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metadc11834
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2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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2010-10-14, 16:16:51
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Ice Core Records of Past Climate Changes: Implications for the Future, USGCRP Seminar, 18 September 1995.
USGCRP Seminar
U.S. Global Change Research Program Seminar: Of what importance are records of past changes in climate, today and in the future? What are the most significant implications of the ice core records of past climate changes?
Ohio State University
per
Thompson, Lonnie G.
University of Rhode Island
per
Bender, Michael
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Global Change Research Program
1995-09-18
eng
This document provides a brief overview of Dr. Thompson's talk on records of changes in climate in general and the most significant implications of the ice core records of past climate changes in particular. Because climate processes that have operated in the past continue to operate today, ice core records are providing very valuable insights. Within the last two decades, long cores of glacial ice have been used to establish and improve the record of past changes in climate. Analysis of ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland and tropical and subtropical areas have provided a wealth of detailed information on past climate changes. As the ice in these glaciers and ice sheets grew over time, layer by layer, tiny pockets of air were trapped within each layer, preserving a continuous record of the natural changes in the concentrations of greenhouse and other gases. In addition, these ice cores have preserved indirect/proxy records of changes in temperature (which can be closely estimated from the isotopic record of oxygen trapped in the ice), in the concentration of windblown dust, and in volcanic activity. By combining this information, these ice cores have preserved a 200,000-year history of climate changes and factors contributing to these changes.
3 p. : ill.
climate variability and change
Paleoenvironment
Paleoclimate
ESDC
UNT
public
pd
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11839/
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/seminars/950918SM.html
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ark:/67531/metadc11839
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ark:/67531/metadc11839
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
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2010-04-08, 14:02:10
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2010-04-08T13:52:47Z
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Floods and Drought, USGCRP Seminar, 8 May 1995.
U.S. Global Change Research Program Seminar: What Causes Such Extremes? Can We Improve Forecasts of Their Occurrence?
USGCRP Seminar
per
Sarachik, Edward
per
Leetma, Ants
U.S. Global Change Research Program
1995-05-08
eng
In this USGCRP seminar, issues about the impact of drought and floods in the news and feel it in the cost of goods and services would be discussed. Each year seems to bring with it droughts or floods that cause billions of dollars in economic losses and untold societal disruption to major parts of our nation. (Drought in the Midwest in 1988 and in the Southeast in 1989. Floods in the Mississippi River Basin in 1992 and in California in 1994). Around the world the situation is the same, even worse in some instances. What causes these extreme events and conditions? Can we predict the occurrence of such events as a means of being prepared, and reducing the impacts of extreme climate events? Can we be better prepared? What success to date has there been in predicting such events? What's the prognosis?
2 p.
climate variability and change
human contributions and responses
floods
ESDC
UNT
public
pd
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11836/
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/seminars/950508SM.html
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ark:/67531/metadc11836
metadc11836
DC
ark:/67531/metadc11836
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
dalemneh
2010-04-08, 13:52:47
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info:ark/67531/metadc11833
2010-04-07T15:53:43Z
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Planning Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan
National Research Council
org
Committee to Review the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan
http://www.nap.edu
National Academies Press
2003
eng
A draft strategic plan for the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was released to the scientific community and the public in November 2002. At the request of the CCSP, the National Academies formed a committee to review this draft strategic plan; the results of this review are reported herein.
xiv, 85 p. : ill.
climate variability and change
human contributions and responses
decision-support resources
atmospheric composition
water cycle
land use
Carbon cycle
ecosystems
land coverage
ESDC
UNT
Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for noncommercial, educational purposes, provided that this notice appears on the reproduced materials, the Web address of the online, full authoritative version is retained, and copies are not altered. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the National Academies Press.
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11833/
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11565.html
0-309-65766-0
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2010-04-07, 15:53:43
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2010-06-29T11:43:38Z
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Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States
A Report of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources National Science and Technology Council
org
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. National Science and Technology Council.
http://www.climatescience.gov/
Washington, DC, USA
U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)
2008-05
eng
This national scientific assessment integrates and interprets the findings of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) and synthesizes findings from previous assessments, including reports and products by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It analyzes current natural and human-induced trends in global change, and projects future trends impacting the natural environment, agriculture, water resources, social systems, energy production and use, transportation, and human health. It is intended to help inform discussion of the relevant issues by decisionmakers, stakeholders, and the public. As such, this report addresses the requirements for assessment in the Global Change Research Act of 1990.1
viii, 261 p. : ill. (some col.)
Environmental change
Regional Vulnerability
Hydrology and Water Resources
Food and Fiber Production
Climate Variability
Ecosystems
Devegetation
Coastal Systems
ESDC
UNT
text_book
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11935/
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/scientific-assessment/Scientific-AssessmentFINAL.pdf
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ark:/67531/metadc11935
This report was prepared in accordance with Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554) and the Information Quality Act guidelines issued by the Department of Commerce and NOAA pursuant to Section 515. For purposes of compliance with Section 515, this report is an "interpreted product" as that term is used in NOAA guidelines and is classified as "highly influential." This document does
not express any regulatory policies of the United States or any of its agencies or provide recommendations for regulatory action.
[date.harvested: 2009-09-09]
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2010-06-29, 11:43:38
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Our Changing Planet: A U.S. Strategy for Global Change Research. A Report by the Committee on Earth Science to Accompany the President's Fiscal Year 1990 Budget.
Our Changing Planet
org
Committee on Earth Sciences
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Washington, D.C.
Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology.
1989
eng
This report by the Committee on Earth Sciences presents an initial strategy for a comprehensive, long-term U.S. Global Change Research Program. The report is to Accompany the U.S. President's Fiscal Year 1990 Budget.
iii, 38 p. : col. ill.
climate variability and change
decision-support resources
human contributions and responses
global warming
decision-support resources
United States
ESDC
UNT
public
pd
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11932/
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/OCPstrategy1989.pdf
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ark:/67531/metadc11932
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
dalemneh
2010-04-14, 10:52:16
False
info:ark/67531/metadc11931
2010-04-15T10:43:54Z
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Marine Environment Protection Law of the People's Republic of China
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
1999-12-25
eng
chi
This law is enacted to protect and improve the marine environment, conserve marine resources, prevent pollution damages, maintain ecological balance, safeguard human health and promote sustainable economic and social development.
23 p.
Law of the People's Republic of China
environmental laws
environmental protection
environmental management
sustainabilty
ecosystems
marine ecology
environmental policy
China
2000-04-01
ESDC
UNT
public
pd
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11931/
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Policies_Regulations/laws/environmental_laws/200710/t20071009_109912.htm
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[Harvested: 2009-10-05]
Adopted at the 24th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress on August 23, 1982 and revised at the 13th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on December 25, 1999, promulgated by Order No. 26 of the President of the People's Republic of China on December 25, 1999
comment: descriptive metadata by Shan.Jiang(Dexter) 2009-10-05
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2010-04-15, 10:43:54
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2010-04-08T11:42:55Z
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Report on the TCO/GCP Terrestrial Carbon Observations and Model-Data Fusion Workshop
GCP Report
The Terrestrial Carbon Observation (TCO) Initiative and the Global Carbon Project (GCP) Report
per
Quegan, Shaun
per
Barrett, Damien J.
per
DeFries, Ruth
per
Heimann, Martin
per
Ojima, Dennis
per
Raupach, Michael R.
per
Rayner, Peter
per
Schmullius, Chritiane
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/
Canberra, Australia
Global Carbon Project
http://www.fao.org/gtos/index.html
Rome, Italy
Global Terrestrial Observing System
2003-06
eng
The global carbon cycle is of intense interest to policy-makers, the scientific community, and public organizations. As a result, numerous new programmes and projects have been developed over the last few years. TCO and GCP are two such complementary initiatives which share a common goal of advancing the availability of more accurate and mutually consistent estimates of terrestrial carbon sources, sinks and processes, regionally and globally, through syntheses of observations and models.
The workshop was intended to advance the availability of more accurate and mutually consistent estimates of the distribution of carbon sources and sinks at a regional and global level. This goal can be achieved by convergence of in situ and satellite observations, experiments and modelling strategies; improvements in data acquisition and sharing; and product generation, distribution and use. The workshop focused on the following questions and associated issues:
1. What carbon cycle data products could be routinely produced from a carbon observation system based on model-data and model-data fusion?
2. What are the main conceptual approaches to assimilating atmospheric carbon content, terrestrial carbon flux and remotely sensed data into coupled atmospheric circulation-carbon cycle models?
3. What is the present and eventual uncertainty regarding the main carbon fluxes at global and regional scale, and how will it be reduced by projects currently underway and about to begin?
4. In what regions, and on what topics, will new data inputs make the largest contribution to reducing the residual uncertainties? What actions should be taken to overcome the gaps and limitations identified?
20 p.
global carbon cycle
atmospheric composition
remote data sensing
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11937/
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/global/pdf/TCO-GCP-Sheffield-2003-workshop-report.pdf
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2010-04-14T10:18:10Z
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Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Clean Production
Law of the People's Republic of China
org
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Beijing, China
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
2002-06-29
eng
This Law was enacted in order to promote cleaner production, increase the efficiency of resource utilization, reduce and avoid the generation of pollutants, protect and improve the environment, ensure public health, and promote sustainable development of the economy and society.
10 p.
Law of the People's Republic of China
promotion of clean production
laws and regulations
environmental protection
environmental management
manufacturing
sustainabilty
environmental policy
China
2002-06-29
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11930/
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Policies_Regulations/laws/envir_elatedlaws/200710/t20071009_109966.htm
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The law approved by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China in the 28th Session on June 29, 2002
comment: harvested by Shan Jiang (Dexter)
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dalemneh
2010-04-14, 10:18:10
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2010-03-16T15:46:51Z
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The National Eleventh Five-year Plan for Environmental Protection(2006-2010)
org
State Environmental Protection Administration
org
National Development and Reform Commission of People's Republic of China
No.115 Xizhimennei Nanxiaojie, Beijing
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
2007-11-22
eng
The current plan is formulated on the basis of the Outline of the 11th Five-Year Plan for the Development of National Economy and Social Development and the Decision of the State Council on the Implementation of the Scientific Outlook on Development and Strengthening Environmental Protection [No.39 document of the State Council (2005)]. The current plan is an important part of the national 11th Five-Year Plan system, and aims at expounding the objectives, tasks, investments, and key policy measures in the field of environmental protection during the 11th Five-Year Plan period. The plan identifies the responsibilities and tasks of the government and the environmental protection departments at all levels, guiding and mobilizing the participation of enterprises and civil society and striving for environmentally friendly society.
39 p.
11th Five-year Plan
environmental protection
China
China
2006-2010
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11938/
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Plans_Reports/11th_five_year_plan/200803/t20080305_119001.htm
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Plans_Reports/11th_five_year_plan/200803/t20080305_119001_1.htm
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Plans_Reports/11th_five_year_plan/200803/t20080305_119001_2.htm
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Plans_Reports/11th_five_year_plan/200803/t20080305_119001_3.htm
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Plans_Reports/11th_five_year_plan/200803/t20080305_119001_4.htm
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Plans_Reports/11th_five_year_plan/200803/t20080305_119001_5.htm
http://english.mep.gov.cn/Plans_Reports/11th_five_year_plan/200803/t20080305_119001_6.htm
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metadc11938
DC
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Can Cities Reduce Global Warming?: Urban Development and the Carbon Cycle in Latin America
per
Romero Lankao, Patricia
per
López Villafranco, Héctor
per
Rosas Huerta, Angélica
per
Günther, Griselda
per
Correa Armenta, Zaira
www.xoc.uam.mx
Mexico City, Mexico
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco
http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/
Bonn, Germany
IHDP Secretariat
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/
Canberra, Australia
Global Carbon Project
http://www.iai.int/
São José dos Campos, Brazil
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
2005
eng
This report includes case studies on urban development and the carbon cycle in the Americas. The authors intend to demonstrate the consequences of different pathways of urban development on the carbon cycle, and identify points of management and intervention aimed at designing less-carbon intensive development.
93 p.
climate variability and change
global warming
urban development
global carbon cycle
sustainability
emissions
transportation
land use and land cover change
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11934/
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/global/pdf/Romero2005_IAIUurbanCarbonReport.pdf
970-31-0466-5
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metadc11934
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nhall
2010-10-14, 15:00:32
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2010-03-16T15:46:51Z
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The National Tenth Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection(Abstract)
org
State Environmental Protection Administration
No.115 Xizhimennei Nanxiaojie, Beijing
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
2001-12-26
eng
The State Council approved the National Tenth Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection on 26 December 2001, requesting that loca1 governments and the various departments strengthen environmental protection in close relation with the economic restructuring; raise funds for environmental protection through multiple channels in connection with the expansion of domestic demand, and establish the mechanism of environmental protection with the government playing the dominant role with market promotion and public participation.
The State Council emphasizes that local governments should undertake the major responsibilities of environmental protection. The governments at various levels should integrate the tasks of the Plan into the target responsibility system for provincial governors, mayors, and county heads. Periodic examination should be carried out on the targets of total pollutant discharge control and environmental quality. The implementation of the Plan should be inspected and reported on every year.
The State Council requests that the relevant departments should provide guidance and support in implementing the Plan according to their respective responsibilities. The State Environmental Protection Administration should conduct coordinated supervision, management, and inspection of the implementation of the Plan.
7 p.
National Tenth Five-Year Plan
environmental protection
environmental management
China
2001-2005
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11939/
http://english.sepa.gov.cn/plan/Tenth.htm
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ark:/67531/metadc11939
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metadc11939
DC
ark:/67531/metadc11939
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
info:ark/67531/metadc11950
2010-03-16T15:46:51Z
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Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [As Amended Through P.L. 105-394, November 13, 1998]: An Act for the development and control of atomic energy
org
United States. Congress
Washington, DC
United States. Government Printing Office
1998-11-13
eng
The Atomic Energy Act (AEA) established the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to promote the "utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes to the maximum extent consistent with the common defense and security and with the health and safety of the public." Since the abolition of the AEC, much of the AEA has been carried out by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy. When EPA was formed, however, the AEC's authority to issue generally applicable environmental radiation standards was transferred to EPA. Other federal and state organizations must follow these standards when developing requirements for their areas of radiation protection.
181 p.
atomic energy
energy production
environmental radiation
laws and regulations
United States
ESDC
UNT
text
text
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11950/
http://epw.senate.gov/atomic54.pdf
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ark:/67531/metadc11950
[harvested 2009-12-22]
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metadc11950
DC
ark:/67531/metadc11950
2010-03-16, 15:46:51
acpmaker
info:ark/67531/metadc11958
2010-10-14T16:49:28Z
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Climate Change and Water: Technical Paper VI
Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC Secretariat
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Bates, Bryson
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Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W.
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Wu, Shaohong
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Palutikof, Jean
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to provide an authoritative international assessment of scientific information on climate change. Climate Change and Water is one of six Technical Papers prepared by the IPCC to date. It was prepared in response to a request from the World Climate Programme - Water and the International Steering Committee of the Dialogue on Water and Climate.
[Geneva, Switzerland]
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2008
eng
The Technical Paper addresses the issue of freshwater. Sea level rise is dealt with only insofar as it can lead to impacts on freshwater in coastal areas and beyond. Climate, freshwater, biophysical and socio-economic systems are interconnected in complex ways. Hence, a change in any one of these can induce a change in any other. Freshwater-related issues are critical in determining key regional and sectoral vulnerabilities. Therefore, the relationship between climate change and freshwater resources is of primary concern to human society and also has implications for all living species.
viii, 200 p. : col. ill.
Environmental change
climate change
water
Decision-Support Resources on Human Contributions and Responses
Wastewater treatment
Geothermal energy
Hydropower
Irrigation
Precipitation and water vapour
Sea level
ESDC
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This is a Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepared in response to a decision of the Panel. The material herein has undergone expert and government review, but has not been considered by the Panel for possible acceptance or approval.
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Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
http://www.climatescience.gov
org
Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Secretary of Energy
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Abraham, Spencer
Secretary of Commerce
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Evans, Donald L.
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
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Marburger, John H.
http://www.climatescience.gov
Washington, DC
Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
2003-07
eng
This strategic plan has been prepared by the 13 federal agencies participating in the CCSP, with coordination by the CCSP staff under the leadership of Dr. Richard H. Moss. This strategic plan responds to the President's direction that climate change research activities be accelerated to provide the best possible scientific information to support public discussion and decision-making on climate-related issues.The plan also responds to Section 104 of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which mandates the development and periodic updating of a long-term national global change research plan coordinated through the National Science and Technology Council.This is the first comprehensive update of a strategic plan for U.S. global change and climate change research since the original plan for the U.S. Global Change Research Program was adopted at the inception of the program in 1989.
v, 202 p. : col. ill.
Climate Variability and Change
Human Contributions and Responses
Atmospheric Composition
Water Cycle
Decision-Support Resources
Land-Use/Land-Cover Change
Carbon Cycle
Ecosystems
Observing and monitoring the climate system
Data Management and Information
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UNT
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Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: Highlights
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, North Carolina
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Karl, Thomas R.
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
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Melillo, Jerry M.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, North Carolina
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Peterson, Thomas C.
Climate Communication, Basalt, Colorado
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Hassol, Susan Joy
Senior Science Writer
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Hassol, Susan Joy
Lead Graphic Designer
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Veasey, Sara W.
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Burkett, Virginia R.
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Carter, Lynne M.
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Cohen, Stewart J.
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Grimm, Nancy B.
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Hatfield, Jerry L.
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Hayhoe, Katharine
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Janetos, Anthony C.
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Kaye, Jack A.
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Lawrimore, Jay H.
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McCarthy, James J.
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McGuire, A. David
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Mills, Evan
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Overpeck,Jonathan T.
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Patz, Jonathan A.
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Pulwarty, Roger S.
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Santer, Benjamin D.
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Karl, Thomas R.
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Melillo, Jerry M.
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Peterson, Thomas C.
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Savonis, Michael J.
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Schwartz, H. Gerry, Jr.
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Shea, Eileen L.
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Stone, John M.R.
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Udall, Bradley H.
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Walsh, John E.
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Wehner, Michael F.
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Wilbanks, Thomas J.
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Wuebbles, Donald J.
www.cambridge.org
New York, USA
Cambridge University Press,
2009-06
eng
This booklet highlights key findings of Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, a state of knowledge report about the observed and projected consequences of climate change for our nation and people. It is an authoritative scientific report written in plain language, with the goal of better informing public and private decision making at all levels. The report draws from a large body of scientific information including the set of 21 synthesis and assessment products from the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and much more. It also includes new information published since these assessments were released. While the primary focus of the report is on the impacts of climate change in the United States, it also discusses some of the actions society is already taking or can take to respond to the climate challenge. These include limiting climate change by, for example, reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases or increasing their removal from the atmosphere. The importance of our current choices about heat-trapping emissions is underscored by comparing impacts resulting from higher versus lower emissions scenarios. Choices about emissions made now will have far-reaching consequences for climate change impacts, with lower emissions reducing the magnitude of climate change impacts and the rate at which they appear. The report also identifies examples of options currently being pursued to cope with or adapt to the impacts of climate change and/or other environmental issues. One example of adaptation is included in this booklet. There is generally insufficient information at present to evaluate the effectiveness, costs, and benefits of potential adaptation actions. This booklet includes a brief overview of the 10 key findings of the report, using examples from the report to illustrate each finding. References for material in this booklet, including figures, can be found in the full report.
20 p. : col. ill.
Climate change impacts
Global climate change
Climate change
United States
Global warming
United States
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Ozone
NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
org
NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
Greenbelt, MD
NASA Earth Observatory
2002
eng
The term "ozone depletion" means more than just the natural destruction of ozone, it means that ozone loss is exceeding ozone creation.
3 p. : ill.
atmospheric composition
air pollution
ozone
ozone depletion
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Ozone
NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
org
NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
Greenbelt, MD
NASA Earth Observatory
2002
eng
In the stratosphere, ozone is created primarily by ultraviolet radiation. When high-energy ultraviolet rays strike ordinary oxygen molecules (O2), they split the molecule into two single oxygen atoms, known as atomic oxygen. A freed oxygen atom then combines with another oxygen molecule to form a molecule of ozone. There is so much oxygen in our atmosphere, that these high-energy ultraviolet rays are completely absorbed in the stratosphere.
3 p. : col. ill.
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air pollution
ozone
ozone oxygen cycle
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Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) Science Plan
IGBP Report
GLOBEC Report
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Report 40
GLOBEC Report 9
http://www.globec.org/
org
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC)
http://igbp.net/
Stockholm, Sweden
IGBP Secretariat
1997
eng
Human population and associated industrial activities continue to increase rapidly, and have reached levels that put the environment under stress in many areas of the world. In addition natural fluctuations of the Earth's physical and biological systems, often occur in time frames that are not readily evident to man. Such fluctuations cause additional stress on the environment, and can result in changes that impact society in terms of diminished availa