Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- CASE STUDIES: CONTRIBUTIONS OF HUMAN DIMENSIONS RESEARCH IN ADDRESSING GLOBAL CHANGE -- Human Dimensions Research and the IPCC -- Consequences of Climate Change and Variability at the Regional Level -- KEY SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS -- What Are the Major Causes of Changes in the Global Environment -- Human Activity and Land Use Change -- Human Impacts on Coastal and Marine Ecosystems -- Changes in Energy and Materials Use -- WHAT ARE THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE? -- Consequences of Future Climate Changes -- Impacts of Past and Present Climate Variability -- Ozone Depletion -- Environmental Change and Security -- WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL HUMAN RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHANGE? -- International Environmental Policy -- National and Local Institutions -- Market Mechanisms -- Valuation of Responses to Global Change -- Understanding Risk, Uncertainty, and Complex Choices -- Integrated Assessment -- What Are the Underlying Social Processes, or Driving Forces, Behind the Human Relationship to the Global Environment? -- Public Attitudes and Values -- Individual and Household Behavior -- Economic Transformations -- Human Population Dynamics -- Technological Change -- LESSONS LEARNED -- Relative Importance of Socioeconomic Uncertainty -- Complex Determination of Environmentally Significant Consumption -- Importance of Vulnerability Analysis in Impact Assessment -- Importance of Institutional Design to Environmental Resource Management -- Importance of Both Analysis and Deliberative Procedure in Environmental Decision Making -- Importance of a Broad-Based Infrastructure -- Significance of Improved Observational Methods and Data Systems.

RESEARCH IMPERATIVES -- Social Determinants of Environmentally Significant Consumption -- Sources and Processes of Technological Change -- Regionally Relevant Climate Change Assessments and Seasonal to Interannual Climate Predictions -- Social and Environmental Surprises -- Effective Institutions for Managing Global Environmental Change -- Changes in Land Use/Land Cover and Patterns of Migration -- Methods for Improving Decision Making About Global Change -- Improve Integration of Human Dimensions Research with USGCRP Science Themes and with Other International Research -- Improve Geographic Links to Existing Social and Health Data -- CONCLUSION: KEY RESEARCH ISSUES FOR THE USGCRP -- NOTES -- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.