Current Projects

The Committee’s Ongoing Activities Include:

Committee on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences - An ad hoc committee will plan and convene two public workshops.  The focus will be on two areas about which insufficient attention has been paid to the potential contributions of behavioral and social sciences.  The areas are incentives for mitigation (i.e., behavioral elements in a strategy to curb or reduce unwanted climate change) and facilitating adaptation (i.e., behavioral and social determinants of societal capacity to cope with unwanted climate change).

Future Events:

Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change Meeting—November 19-20, 2009, Keck Center of the National Academies, Room 105, Washington, DC.

Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Workshop #1—December 3-4, 2009, National Academies Building, Members Room, Washington, DC

Linking Social Science Data and Environmental Data for Climate Change Research Meeting—December 11, 2009, Keck Center of the National Academies, Room 206, Washington, DC.