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Title Informing decisions in a changing climate / Panel on Strategies and Methods for Climate-Related Decision Support, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Published Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) : illustrations
Contents The need for climate-related decision support -- Effective decision suport: definitions, principles, and implementation -- Decision support and learning -- Information needs for decision support -- A national initiative for decision support -- Appendix A : Climate change and the New York metropolitan region
Summary Everyone--government agencies, private organizations, and individuals--is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines based on past climatic averages. State and local agencies in particular, as well as the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-165)
Notes English
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Subject Climatic changes -- Research -- Government policy -- United States
Climatic changes -- Risk assessment.
Decision support systems.
Environmental degradation -- Risk assessment
Environmental policy -- Decision making
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Climatic changes -- Research -- Government policy
Climatic changes -- Risk assessment
Decision support systems
Environmental policy -- Decision making
United States
Form Electronic book
Author National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Strategies and Methods for Climate-Related Decision Support.
LC no. 2009014123
ISBN 0309137381
9780309137386
1282239279
9781282239272
0309137489
9780309137485