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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810763503321

Titolo

Global environmental change : research pathways for the next decade / / Committee on Global Change Research, Board on Sustainable Development, Policy Division, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c1999

ISBN

0-309-17432-5

0-309-51780-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 595 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Disciplina

363.738/74/072073

Soggetti

Global environmental change

Climatic changes - Research - United States

Global warming - Research - United States

Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric - Research - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""