Global Climate Change Collaborative (G3C)

MUSIC has initiated the Global Climate Change Collaborative (G3C). G3C is a network of institutions around the world that conduct action research projects to help communities, planners, and policy makers develop adaptive management and adaptive governance processes to prepare for the impacts of climate change.

MUSIC is one of the principal science applications and policy-relevant research entities of the USGS Global Change Science program.  G3C action-research projects will develop and test policy approaches as described above.

Initial G3C projects focus on coastal and marine ecosystems and fresh water resources and management. A coordinating committee has been established tri-chaired by Herman Karl (co-Director of MUSIC), Michael Davidson (Research Associate, University of Pretoria, South Africa), and Rosemary Sandford (Research Fellow-Policy, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem Cooperative Research Centre, Tasmania).  The committee consists of representatives (practitioners and academics) from the regional network of institutions. Besides the institutions represented by the tri-chairs, to date they include Cyprus Institute (Middle East), British Geological Survey, TNO (the Netherlands), Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (Israel), and Anudip Foundation for Social Welfare (India).

(Read full announcement here.)