Preview of Our Changing Planet:
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008

A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and The Subcommittee on Global Change Research
A Supplement to the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2008

Decision Support: Information to Support Policy Development and Adaptive Management

CCSP sponsors and conducts research that is ultimately related to policy and adaptive management decisionmaking. CCSP’s decision-support approach is guided by several general principles, including:

• Early and continuing involvement of stakeholders
  
  
• Explicit treatment of uncertainties
  
  
• Transparent public review of analysis questions, methods, and draft results
  
  
• Evaluation of lessons learned from ongoing and prior decision-support and assessment activities.