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He is the former acting director of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change and currently is the convening lead author for the chapter on Agriculture and Food Security in the upcoming Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has also held positions in agricultural meteorology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and in the Climate Resources Program at Resources for the Future, Inc.
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Trained as a geographer, she has published widely on drought, climate impacts, resource management, and environmental policy. Her current research examines the social causes and consequences of global and regional environmental change, especially the impacts of climate change and variability on water resources and agriculture in the Americas and the social causes of land use and cover change in Mexico.
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In recent work, she has examined the effects of climatic variations on the international management of Pacific salmon resources, the potential impacts of climate variability and climate change on water resources in the western United States, and the possible impacts of climate change on U.S.-Canadian transboundary water management.
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PAUL C STERN is study director of the Panel on Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability and its parent Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change at the National Research Council; research professor of sociology at George Mason University; and president of the Social and Environmental Research Institute.
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She is currently the president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and associate editor for the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. In addition, she serves on three other journal editorial boards, on the executive councils of the Decision Analysis Society and the Society for Mathematical Psychology, and on a MacArthur Foundation panel.
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