• Improved understanding of climate thresholds and vulnerabilities, impacts, and
adaptive responses in a variety of different local contexts
across the country • Improved understanding of vulnerable populations (e.g., urban poor, native populations on tribal lands) that have limited
capacities for responding to climate change • Ways to build
adaptive capacity that can be generalized
across individuals, communities, and countries • Decision support tools for entities responsible for hazard mitigation and management • Collection of socioeconomic research to inform impact, vulnerability, and adaptation research