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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
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
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.