MANAGING CLIMATE RESOURCES

Abstract

Startling as the prospect of influencing climate on a global scale may seem, it is even more startling to realize that we may already be inadvertently influencing global climate, and that inadvertent consequences of human activity will increase manyfold in only a few decades. Moreover, rapidly growing pressures on world food production make the social consequences of climatic variation ever more serious. The inescapable conclusion is that purposeful management of global climatic resources will become necessary to prevent undesirable changes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0684386

Entities

People

  • J. O. Fletcher

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pollution
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Geography
  • Meteorology
  • North America
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Ridges
  • Solar Radiation
  • Surface Temperature
  • Topography
  • United States
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.