Distributed Assessment Systems: An Emerging Paradigm of Research, Assessment and Decision-making for Environmental Change

University's Global Environmental Assessment Project (NSF Award No. SBR-9521910), the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Integrated Assessment Center at Carnegie Mellon University (NSF Award No. SBR-9521914). I thank William Clark, Jill Jaeger, Susanne Moser, Eileen Shea, and Anne Weiss for critical review of earlier drafts. *Corresponding author. Tel.: 1#617-496-9330; fax: 1#617-4960606. E-mail address: david}cash@harvard.edu (D.W. Cash). Global Environmental Change 10 (2000) 241}244

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