BECS (formerly CHDGC) Publications
	Describing Socioeconomic Futures for Climate Change Research and Assessment (2010) explores the requirements for descriptions of socioeconomic and environmental futures to complement climate scenarios.
	Facilitating Climate Change Responses (2010) helps to show federal agencies the value of contributions of the social and behavioral sciences to the knowledge needed by the nation to respond to the challenges of global environmental change.
	Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate (2009) examines the growing need for climate-related decision support--that is, organized efforts to produce, disseminate, and facilitate the use of data and information in order to improve the quality and efficacy of climate-related decisions. Drawing on evidence from past efforts to organize science for improved decision making, it develops guidance for government agencies and other institutions that will provide or use information for coping with climate change.
no image available	Review of CCSP Draft Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.3: Decision-Support Experiments and Evaluations Using Seasonal to Interannual Forecasts and Observational Data (2008) offers an independent peer review for a synthetic document being produced for the CCSP.
	New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment: Summary of a Workshop (2008) With effective climate change mitigation policies still under development, and with even the most aggressive proposals unable to halt climate change immediately, many decision makers are focusing unprecedented attention on the need for strategies to adapt to climate changes that are now unavoidable.
	Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making (2008) recommends that agencies recognize public participation as valuable to their objectives, not just as a formality required by the law. It details principles and approaches agencies can use to successfully involve the public.
	Research and Networks for Decision Support in the NOAA Sectoral Application Research Program (2007) recommends a definition of ‘decision support’ and a strategy by which this program can advance decision support be development of and research on networks linking producers and users of climate information.
	Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social-Spatial Data (2007) seeks ways to reconcile the conflicting needs of data quality, data access, and confidentiality for data that hold significant potential for advancing knowledge of human-environment interactions.
	Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions (2005) reviews knowledge on interactions between demographic and environmental changes mediated by land use and recommends research directions.
	Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities (2005) identifies five areas of high priority research that can contribute to improved decisions affecting environmental quality.
	Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle: Summary of a Workshop (2002) reports on discussions of promising research issues linking social science and natural science analyses of the carbon cycle.
	New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures (2002) summarized available knowledge and examined the potential for these measures as supplements to regulatory and economic policy instruments.
	The Drama of the Commons (2002) summarized knowledge on major questions about the design and operation of institutions for managing common-pool resources and set research directions for the future.
	Making Climate Forecasts Matter (1999) developed a conceptual base and identified key scientific questions for analyzing the human consequences of seasonal-to-interannual climate variations (e.g., El Niño) and learning how make improved climate forecasting skill more useful.
	Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade (1999) presents a state-of-the-field review and set of research imperatives.
	People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science (1998) identified and discussed opportunities for using remotely sensed data in research on human-environment interactions and in social science, presented examples, and developed a Web-based guide to information resources.
	Environmentally Significant Consumption: Research Directions (1997) conceptualized the link between consumption and environment and identified and illustrated promising research possibilities on the causes of environmentally significant consumption.
	Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society (1996) addresses a central dilemma of risk decision-making in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions are not scientists. The key task of risk characterization is to provide needed and appropriate information to decision-makers and the public.
no image available	Research Needs and Modes of Support for the Human Dimensions of Global Change (1994) led NSF to support a collection of centers and research teams.
	Science Priorities for the Human Dimensions of Global Change (1994) advised the National Science Foundation on the creation of a policy science program to deal with global change issues.
	Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions (1992) defined human dimensions research as a coherent intellectual enterprise and recommended a plan for national research in the area.
	Last updated: March 1, 2012