The Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment: motivation and approach

Abstract

The US Congress noted scientific findings that 'industrial, agricultural, and other human activities, coupled with an expanding world population, are contributing to processes of global change that may significantly alter the Earth habitat within a few generations' as a basis for the Global Change Research Act of 1990Act of (1990)). This Act requires the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to report to the President and Congress, at least every 4 yr, on the potential national impacts of global change.