Global environmental change : research pathways for the next decade / Committee on Global Change Research, Board on Sustainable Development, Policy Division, National Research Council
Introduction and background -- Changes to the biology and biochemistry of ecosystems -- Changes in the climate system on seasonal to interannual timescales -- Changes in the climate system on decade-to-century timescales -- Changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere -- Paleoclimate overview -- Human dimensions of global environmental change -- Observations -- Processing and distributing earth observations and information -- Modeling -- Findings and recommendations
Summary
"This volume encourages a renewed commitment to understanding global change and sets a direction for research in the decade ahead. Through case studies the book explores what can be learned from the lessons of the past 20 years and what are the outstanding scientific questions."--Catalog description