This book recommends research priorities and scientific approaches for global change research. It addresses the scientific approaches for documenting global change, developing integrated earth system models, and conducting focused studies to improve understanding of global change on topics such as earth system history and human sources of global change.
Committee on Global Change, National Research Council
1 Front Matter; 2 Summary of Recommendations; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Integrated Modeling of the Earth System; 5 3 Earth System History and Modeling; 6 4 Human Sources of Global Change; 7 5 Water-Energy-Vegetation Interactions; 8 6 Terrestrial Trace Gas and Nutrient Fluxes; 9 7 Biogeochemical Dynamics in the Ocean; 10 8 Documenting Global Change; 11 Appendixes; 12 Appendix A: List of Participants in the Workshop on Human Interactions with Global Change; 13 Appendix B: A Selective Literature Review on the Human Sources of Global Environmental Change; 14 Appendix C: Related Institutional Efforts on Human Interactions with Global Change
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Life Sciences, Committee on Metagenomics: Challenges and Functional Applications
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, and Families Board on Children, Youth, Steve Olson
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Commission on Life Sciences, Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards, Safe Drinking Water Committee
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and Statistical Sciences Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, Lincoln E. Moses, Heather G. Miller, Charles F. Turner
National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Applications Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Committee to Provide Interim Oversight of the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Applications Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Committee on Global Change
National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Applications Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Committee on Global Change