Integrated Studies of Problems in Managing Research and Human Responses to Global Climate Change

将对管理研究和人类对全球气候变化的反应问题进行综合研究。虽然工作各部分相互影响，但为了说明和管理方便，该项目分为两个广泛的活动：综合评估，特别侧重于不确定性，以及研究公众理解和交流。虽然全球气候变化问题本身就很重要，但它们是科学、技术和公共政策领域一类问题的典型，其中：1)在规划研究、执行政策分析或制定政策反应时，有大量不同因素的相互作用不容忽视；2)涉及这些因素及其相互作用的不确定性很大，在感受到潜在影响和必须做出政策选择之前，不太可能完全解决；3)公众对这些科学和技术问题的理解至关重要，改善风险沟通对更好的公共政策至关重要。

Integrated studies of issues in managing research and human responses to global climate change will be done. While the elements of the work interact, for expository and administrative convenience, the project is divided into two broad activities: An integrated assessment, focusing particularly on uncertainty, and studies of public understanding and communication. While global climate change issues are important in their own right, they are prototypical of a class of issues in science, technology, and public policy in which: 1) there are a significant number of different elements whose interactions cannot safely be ignored in planning research, performing policy analysis, or formulating policy responses; 2) uncertainty involving these elements and their interactions is large and unlikely to be fully resolved before potential impacts would be felt and policy choices will have to be made; and 3) public understanding of these scientific and technical issues is of central importance and improved risk communication is essential to better public policy.