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Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Update to the Strategic Plan Document

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The report reviews the draft Update to the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s (USGCRP) 2012 Strategic Plan. The Strategic plan sets out a long-term vision for the research program to guide the Program’s thirteen federal departments and agencies in meeting the mandate of the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990. The Update (USP) provides a more detailed view of priorities and strategies for the next three years, and is part of a family of documents that also includes the annual report Our Changing Planet, which describes annual priorities included as part of the President’s budget request. The Committee was tasked with formally reviewing the USP (see the Statement of Task in Appendix A), drawing on its prior review of the draft Strategic Plan in 2012 and its ongoing attention to the progress of the Program in the intervening years (see the Committee’s charge in Appendix B). Overall, the Committee believes the Program is moving forward well and has accomplished many things. The Committee commends the USGCRP for putting together a draft USP that identifies a number of critical research questions and describes a set of strategies and programs to address an expanding set of national information needs. The Committee notes that the demand for science-based information on global change is likely to increase as the effects of global change are experienced in more sectors and systems across the United States, and as a growing number and diversity of decision makers confront the need to consider global change in investments, community planning, and other routine decisions. The draft USP identifies many increasingly pressing scientific needs and proposes to address them.

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: ., 2016

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1-90

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English

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978-0-309-43746-2

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Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program'

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