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U.S. Funds Studies on Climate Change
Athens (October 7, 2004) -- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund five interdisciplinary research teams with $25 million over the next five years to study important aspects of problems associated with understanding climate-related decisions. Research centers will be located at Arizona State University, Carnegie-Mellon University’s Climate Decision Making Center, Columbia University, the University of Colorado, and the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica.
The study will cover an extensive range of issues including water management in an arid climate, forest, fisheries and ecosystem management, economic development in the Arctic region in conjunction with the preservation of traditional life-styles, electric utility investment decisions affected by climate change risks, the interaction of individuals and groups with organizations in order to examine how decisions can best be reached, people’s expectations about what science can offer, whether policy-makers use information available and what information can best be used in the future, and various warning methods of abrupt climate changes.
This program is part of the NSF’s priority area in Human and Social Dynamics. Results will contribute to President Bush’s multi-agency Climate Change Research Initiative.
For information on NSF’s Human and Social Dynamics priority area, see:
http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/hsd/start.htm.
For information on the Climate Change Research Initiative, see:
http://www.climatescience.gov/about/ccri.htm