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Global climate change is one of America's most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activity—especially the use of fossil fuels, industrial processes, livestock production, waste disposal, and land use change—is affecting global average temperatures, snow and ice cover, sea-level, ocean acidity, growing seasons and precipitation patterns, ecosystems, and human health. Climate-related decisions are being carried out by almost every agency of the federal government, as well as many state and local government leaders and agencies, businesses and individual citizens. Decision makers must contend with the availability and quality of information, the efficacy of proposed solutions, the unanticipated consequences resulting from decisions, the challenge of implementing chosen actions, and must consider how to sustain the action over time and respond to new information.

Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change, a volume in the America's Climate Choices series, describes and assesses different activities, products, strategies, and tools for informing decision makers about climate change and helping them plan and execute effective, integrated responses. It discusses who is making decisions (on the local, state, and national levels), who should be providing information to make decisions, and how that information should be provided. It covers all levels of decision making, including international, state, and individual decision making. While most existing research has focused on the physical aspect of climate change, Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change employs theory and case study to describe the efforts undertaken so far, and to guide the development of future decision-making resources.

Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change offers much-needed guidance to those creating public policy and assists in implementing that policy. The information presented in this book will be invaluable to the research community, especially social scientists studying climate change; practitioners of decision-making assistance, including advocacy organizations, non-profits, and government agencies; and college-level teachers and students.

This title is part of the America's Climate Change project, the National Research Council's most comprehensive study of climate change to date.

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Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
Advancing The Science of Climate Change

Suggested Citation

National Research Council. 2010. Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/12784.

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Publication Info

346 pages |  7 x 10 | 

ISBNs: 
  • Paperback:  978-0-309-14594-7
  • Ebook:  978-0-309-18531-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/12784

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Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change

Advancing The Science of Climate Change

Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change

Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change

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