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HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH THE CARBON CYCLE

Summary of a Workshop

Paul C. Stern

Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change

Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

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Suggested citation: National Research Council. (2002). Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle: Summary of a Workshop. Paul C. Stern. Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change. Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

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COMMITTEE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE

THOMAS DIETZ (Chair),

Department of Environmental Science and Policy and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University

BARBARA ENTWISLE,

Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina

MYRON GUTMANN,

Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

RONALD MITCHELL,

Department of Political Science, University of Oregon

EMILIO MORAN,

Department of Anthropology, Indiana University

M. GRANGER MORGAN,

Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

EDWARD PARSON,

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard University

ALAN RANDALL,

Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University

PETER J. RICHERSON,

Division of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis

MARK ROSENZWEIG,

Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER,

Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

SUSAN STONICH,

Department of Anthropology and Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara

ELKE U. WEBER,

Department of Psychology, Columbia University

THOMAS J. WILBANKS,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

CHARLES KENNEL (ex officio, chair, Committee on Global Change Research),

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

ORAN R. YOUNG (ex officio, International Human Dimensions Program Liaison),

Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College

Staff

PAUL C. STERN, Study Director

DEBORAH M. JOHNSON, Senior Project Assistant

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Acknowledgments

The Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change is grateful to the many individuals whose efforts made this workshop summary possible. The committee’s work and other work of the National Research Council in support of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is supported by a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, acting on behalf of the USGCRP agencies.

We also wish to thank the workshop speakers, whose remarks stimulated a rich and wide-ranging discussion (see the Appendix for the workshop agenda). Committee members, as well as workshop participants, contributed questions and insights that significantly enhanced the dialogue. The workshop was conceived by the committee, with organizational responsibility delegated to a planning group consisting of the chair, Thomas Dietz, and members Emilio Moran, Edward Parson, and Thomas J. Wilbanks. This summary was executed by Paul C. Stern, staff director of the committee, to reflect a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the Report Review Committee of the National Research Council. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the

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study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report: David Cash, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Clark C. Gibson, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego; Diana Liverman, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona; and Robert Mendelsohn, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Oran R. Young, Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College. Appointed by the National Research Council, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the author and the institution.

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The USGCRP's Carbon Cycle Working Group asked the National Research Council's Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change to hold a workshop on Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle. The basic purpose of the workshop was to help build bridges between the research communities in the social sciences and the natural sciences that might eventually work together to produce the needed understanding of the carbon cycle-an understanding that can inform public decisions that could, among other things, prevent disasters from resulting from the ways humanity has been altering the carbon cycle. Members of the working group hoped that a successful workshop would improve communication between the relevant research communities in the natural and social sciences, leading eventually to an expansion of the carbon cycle program element in directions that would better integrate the two domains.

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