strategy
Improving predictive modelling of the Earth system and sub-systems
Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.Agenda 21 recommends supporting national, subregional, regional and international research programmes on marine and terrestrial systems, strengthening global terrestrial databases of their components, expanding corresponding systems for monitoring their changing states and enhancing predictive modelling of the Earth system and its subsystems, including modelling of the functioning of these systems assuming different intensities of human impact. The research programmes should include the programmes mentioned in other Agenda 21 chapters which support mechanisms for cooperation and coherence of research programmes on global change.
Broader:
Using predictive models Facilitates:
Improving knowledge on ecosystem processes Facilitated by:
Developing an integrated global observing strategy Organizations:
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Subjects:
Earth → Earth → Systems
Cybernetics → Modelling
Development → Reform
Policy-making → Future
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
