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UNINA9910810763503321 |
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Titolo |
Global environmental change : research pathways for the next decade / / Committee on Global Change Research, Board on Sustainable Development, Policy Division, National Research Council |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c1999 |
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ISBN |
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0-309-17432-5 |
0-309-51780-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 595 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Global environmental change |
Climatic changes - Research - United States |
Global warming - Research - United States |
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric - Research - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction and Background""; ""2 Changes to the Biology and Biochemistry of Ecosystems""; ""3 Changes in the Climate System on Seasonal to Interannual Timescales""; ""4 Changes in the Climate System on Decade-to-Century Timescales""; ""5 Changes in the Chemistry of the Atmosphere""; ""6 Paleoclimate Overview""; ""7 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change*""; ""8 Observations""; ""9 Processing and Distributing Earth Observations and Information""; ""10 Modeling""; ""11 Findings and Recommendations"" |
""ANNEX 1 A Short History of EOSDIS, 1986 to 1995"" ""ANNEX 2 THE EOS Information Federation""; ""ANNEX 3 Producing Trustworthy Scientific Information in the EOS Information Federation""; ""Appendix A PUBLIC LAW 101-606 [S. 169]; November 16, 1990 GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH ACT OF 1990""; ""APPENDIX B Acronyms""; ""APPENDIX C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""Index"" |
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