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  caption: 'Land cover change, such as the rapid urban expansion of Las Vegas shown above (left: 1992; right: 2013), interacts with climate change in complex ways. Scenarios can be used to understand and plan for the plausible permutations of these and other interacting processes in the Earth system. (Source: USGS Landsat)'
  chapter:
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    display_name: 'Chapter 2: Federal Investments in Global Change Research '
    doi: ~
    identifier: federal-investments-global-change-research
    number: 2
    report_identifier: usgcrp-ocpfy2016
    sort_key: 20
    title: 'Federal Investments in Global Change Research '
    url: ~
  chapter_identifier: federal-investments-global-change-research
  create_dt: ~
  description: 'Land cover change, such as the rapid urban expansion of Las Vegas shown above (left: 1992; right: 2013), interacts with climate change in complex ways. Scenarios can be used to understand and plan for the plausible permutations of these and other interacting processes in the Earth system. (Source: USGS Landsat)'
  display_name: '2.13: Land cover change in Nevada'
  identifier: land-cover-change-nevada
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  ordinal: 13
  report:
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    _public: 1
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    display_name: 'Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Global Change Research Program for Fiscal Year 2016'
    doi: ~
    frequency: ~
    identifier: usgcrp-ocpfy2016
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    publication_year: 2015
    report_type_identifier: report
    summary: "This FY 2016 edition of Our Changing Planet, USGCRP's annual report, summarizes the Program's significant advancements toward achieving its scientific goals, delivering on its Congressional mandate, supporting the President’s Climate Action Plan, and building a knowledge base that effectively informs human responses to global change. It includes an overview of the USGCRP research enterprise and recent highlights that demonstrate progress on the 2012–2021 Strategic Plan. The report also spotlights progress in interagency research priority areas that intersect with the Climate Action Plan, such as climate predictions, drought and other hydrologic extremes, and actionable science. The highlights in this Our Changing Planet report represent the broad spectrum of USGCRP activities that extend from Earth system observations, modeling, and fundamental research through synthesis and assessment, decision support, education, and public engagement. "
    title: 'Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Global Change Research Program for Fiscal Year 2016'
    topic: ~
    url: https://downloads.globalchange.gov/ocp/ocp2016/Our-Changing-Planet_FY-2016_full.pdf
  report_identifier: usgcrp-ocpfy2016
  source_citation: 'Images collected by Landsat satellite on September 10, 1992 (left panel) and October 6, 2013 (right panel). Retrieved as a single image (panels not separated) in March 2015 from NASA Images of Change'
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  title: Land cover change in Nevada
  type: figure
  uri: /report/usgcrp-ocpfy2016/chapter/federal-investments-global-change-research/figure/land-cover-change-nevada
  url: 'http://climate.nasa.gov/state_of_flux#Western_Las_Vegas_930x370.jpg. '
  usage_limits: Free to use with credit to the original figure source.