The geoscience community provides the knowledge, experience, and ingenuity to meet society demands for natural resources, environmental quality, and resilience to hazards. In this publication, the AGI outlines some critical needs of the nation and the world and provide policy guidance to grow the economy while sustaining the Earth system. The Earth system includes complex linkages among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere.
Natural resources we rely on are derived from the Earth system. With a burgeoning human population, rising demand for natural resources, concerns about food security, and a changing climate, it is critical to more fully integrate Earth observations and Earth system understanding into actions for a sustainable planet. The geoscience community of more than 250,000 geoscientists represented by member societies of the American Geosciences Institute stands ready to help meet the challenges of modern life in a delicately linked Earth system.
Original working URL: http://www.agiweb.org/gap/CriticalNeeds2012.pdf
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