The National Academies: Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine
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Current Projects

The Committee’s Ongoing Activities Include:

U.S. Workshop on New Directions in Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment

Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making – a major study in evaluating and summarizing the state of knowledge on how to combine broadly based deliberation with scientific analysis to inform environmental decisions. A report is expected in early 2008.
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Materials for Workshop on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making)

Strategies and Methods for Climate-Related Decision Support – this study is developing a framework and recommended strategies for implementing and evaluating decision support activities aimed at achieving the objectives of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. A report is expected in the second half of 2008.

Recent Events:
Committee meeting—November 28-29, 2007

Meeting recap

Location: Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, DC.

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