Committee on Global Change Research, National Research Council, "Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade"
Publisher: National Academies Press | 1999-09-14 | 621 Pages | ISBN: 0309064201 | PDF | 7.5 MB
Publisher: National Academies Press | 1999-09-14 | 621 Pages | ISBN: 0309064201 | PDF | 7.5 MB
How can we understand and rise to the environmental challenges of global change? One clear answer is to understand the science of global change, not solely in terms of the processes that control changes in climate and the composition of the atmosphere, but in how ecosystems and human society interact with these changes. In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a number of such research efforts–supported by computer and satellite technology–have been launched. Yet many opportunities for integration remain unexploited, and many fundamental questions remain about the earth's capacity to support a growing human population.