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1 Introduction
Pages 11-18

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... CCSP agencies are striving (1) to demonstrate progress in climate change science, (2)
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... 3Army Research Laboratory, 1996, Applying the Principles of the Government Performance and Results Act to the Research and Development Function: A Case Study Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, 27 pp., ; National Science and Technology Council, 1996, Assessing Fundamental Science, ; General Accounting Office, 1997, Measuring Performance: Strengths and Limitations of Research Indicators, GAO/RCED-9791, Washington, D.C., 34 pp.; National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council, 1999, Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Challenges and Opportunities, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 252 pp.; National Research Council, 1999, Evaluating Federal Research Programs: Research and the Government Performance and Results Act, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 80 pp.; National Research Council, 2001, Implementing the Government Performance and Results Act for Research: A Status Report, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 190 pp. 4Presentations to the committee by J
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... Finally, the plan describes research needs in seven areas -- atmospheric com position, climate variability and change, water cycle, land-use and land-cover change, carbon cycle, ecosystems, and human contributions and responses to environmental change -- and specifies more than 200 milestones, products, and payoffs to be produced in these research areas within two to four years. SOURCE: Climate Change Science Program and Subcommittee on Global Change Research, 2003, Strategic Plan for the U.S.
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... Information was gathered from a literature review and briefings from agency program managers, climate change scientists, science historians, and policy experts. Based on this information, the committee identified principles for developing metrics for the CCSP.
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... 2. Identify three to five areas of climate change and global change research that can and should be evaluated through quantitative performance measures.
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... Chapter 2 describes different approaches that industry, academia, and federal agencies have taken to measure research performance. A more complete discussion of federal laws and policies driving government efforts to measure performance is given in Appendix A
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... Chapter 5 describes the process by which the committee developed metrics and summarizes conclusions from developing metrics in case studies that appear here and in Appendix B A set of general metrics for assessing the progress of CCSP program elements and for guiding future strategic planning is proposed and tested in Chapter 6.
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