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Item Anticipatory Planning for Sea-Level Rise Along the Coast of Maine(United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1995-09) United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation; State of Maine's State Planning OfficeThis report constitutes Maine's first systematic assessment of its vulnerability to a change in shoreline position as a result of accelerated sea-level rise associated with global climate change. Because there is still a great deal of uncertainty associated with projections of global climate change, this report should be considered as merely the first cut at assessing vulnerability and identifying options for an anticipatory response strategy. Due to the projected gradual onset, there will be time to make some corrections as more scientific certainty is achieved. However, despite the uncertainty and gradual onset, it is important for Maine to begin to address these issues now. As expressed by a consensus of international coastal zone managers: It is urgent for coastal nations to begin the process of adapting to sea level rise not because there is an impending catastrophe, but because there are opportunities to avoid adverse impacts by acting now, opportunities that may be lost if the process is delayed. This is also consistent with good coastal zone management practice irrespective of whether climate change occurs or not.Item Biological Populations as Indicators of Environmental Change - Volume 1(United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1992-12) United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Policy, Planning and EvaluationThis report, "Biological Populations as Indicators of Environmental Change - Volume 1" is a review of scientific literature on biological phenomena frequently noted in the popular press, to determine the degree to which scientists are reporting that the phenomena may be indicators of environmental changes. Noticing that reports of events, such as dwindling numbers of warblers in our forests and apparent reductions of frogs and salamanders observed worldwide, were appearing almost weekly in news features and science pages of major newspapers, the Environmental Results Branch (ERB) of the Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation (OPPE), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) began an attempt to identify existing knowledge about these phenomena. Of particular interest was considering whether these phenomena, alone or in combination, might be indicators of environmental change at the regional, continental, hemispheric, or global scales. The first volume reviews eight of these phenomena; planned future volumes will address additional occurences and continue to monitor the literature on the topics in this volume. Selection of these eight topics is not an indication that we believe these to be the "best" indicators of environmental change; simply these appeared frequently in the popular press and data was more plentiful than for other topics. Likewise neither do we suggest that one can determine if these changes are from natural causes or are anthropogenic (induced by man). This is a scientific literature review "directed" by a screen of articles appearing in the popular press; we make no independent recommendations nor conclusions in regard to causes or selection of indicators of environmental change. As part of this reference/educational document, extensive bibliographies are included. These bibliographies, the scientific references cited in the text and included within each chapter as "References", and popular literature cited as "Popular Press Bibliography", should serve as tools for scientists and the general public alike.Item Climate Change and Texas(United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1997-09) United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Policy, Planning and EvaluationNo abstract available.