| Abstract: | Heightened public concern, pending federal legislation, and calls for an international treaty to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases have placed pressure on resource planners to mitigate the causes and impacts of anthropogenic climate change despite uncertainty over its timing and magnitude. Traditional resource planning, however, is predicated on the assumption that future environmental conditions will emulate the past, and is based on local and national, rather than global, objectives. The threat of global warming calls for a new paradigm of resource planning, including expanded sensitivity analysis, incremental response as the threat evolves, an expanded range of adjustments, and planning in a global context. |
