Climate Change Impacts and Responses: Societal Indicators for the National Climate Assessment: NCA Report Series, Volume 5c (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781511778107)

The Climate Change Impacts and Responses: Societal Indicators for the National Climate Assessment workshop, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the National Climate Assessment (NCA), was held on April 28-29, 2011. Participants brought a wide range of disciplinary expertise in the social and natural sciences, sector experience, and knowledge about developing and implementing indicators for a range of purposes. Participants included representatives from federal and state government, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), tribes, universities, and communities. The purpose of the workshop was to assist the NCA in developing a strategic framework for climate-related physical, ecological, and socioeconomic indicators that can be easily communicated with the U.S. population and that will support monitoring, assessment, prediction, evaluation, and decision making. The NCA indicators are envisioned as a relatively small number of policy-relevant integrated indicators designed to provide a consistent, objective, and transparent overview of major variations in climate impacts, vulnerabilities, adaptation, and mitigation activities across sectors, regions, and timeframes.

Author: National Climate Assessment,U. S. Global Change Research Program
ISBN-10: 1511778105
ISBN-13: 9781511778107
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2015
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.26d