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Appendix C: Related Institutional Efforts on Human Interactions with Global Change
Appendix C: Related Institutional Efforts on Human Interactions with Global Change
Pages 285-292
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This theme is particularly relevant to the work of the Committee on Global Change. In this area, the NAE intends to further develop frameworks for analyzing the interactions between technology and the environment, and to apply these frameworks to specific industrial sector studies.
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The Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Research Council (NRC) will undertake an 18-month study on the human dimensions of global change.
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OTHER DOMESTIC EFFORTS The Social Science Research Council (Richard Rockwell, Social Science Research Council, 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158) The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
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These dimensions include but are not limited to such broad topics as the social, economic, demographic, governmental, and institutional components of global change. Studies of human influences on Me environment and institutional responses to global changes are both appropriate for this initiative, but proposals must emphasize fundamental research into processes of change over time or space.
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. The objectives of the research program are as follows:3 · to improve scientific understanding and increase awareness of the complex dynamics governing human interaction with the total Earth system; · to strengthen efforts to study, explore, and anticipate social change affecting the global environment; to identify broad social strategies to prevent or mitigate undesirable impacts of global change, or to adapt to changes that are already unavoidable; to analyze policy options for dealing with global environmental change and promoting the goal of sustainable development.
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The newest of IIASA's four applied programs, the Climate and Ecology Related Energy Program, was established in 1990 to integrate a number of the ongoing lines of research at the institute, and to sharpen their focus on the connection between patterns of energy technology, use, and emissions on the one hand, and international environmental changes on the other. Research and data sets related to human sources of global change include: · International population growth, migration, and demographics; · International agricultural production and fertilizer use; · Consumption, efficiency, and emissions associated with different energy technologies;
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Data sets and research activities related to the impacts of global change include: · Climate change impacts on regional agriculture and on international agricultural trade; Climate change impacts on global vegetation patterns; Climate change impacts on the boreal forests; European soil and lake acidification; International soil loss; · European toxic waste accumulations; and Regional impacts of pollution on water resources, air quality, and public health.
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