AAG Association of American Geographers

BLM Bureau of Land Management (United States)

CCG2 Second Commission on College Geography (within the AAG)

CEQ Council of Environmental Quality (United States)

CIA Central Intelligence Agency (United States)

CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network

ET Earth Transformed (by Human Action) Program at Clark University

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations)

GCC Global climate change

GDP Gross domestic product

GEC Global environmental change

HDGC Human dimensions of global change

HDP Human Dimensions Program

IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)

IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Program

LULC Land use/land cover

MAB Man and Biosphere Program

MSS (Landsat) Multi-spectral scanner

NCGE National Council for Geographic Education (United States)

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United States)

NRC National Research Council (United States)

NTIS National Technical Information Service (U.S. Department of Commerce)

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)

OTA Office of Technological Assessment (United States)

PRB Population Reference Bureau

SCOPE Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment

SSRC Social Science Research Council

UN United Nations

UNECE United Nation Economic Commission for Europe

UNEP United Nation Environment Program

UNESCO United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

US (USA) United States (of America)

USGS United States Geological Survey

USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

WCED World Commission for Environment and Development (United Nations)

WRI World Resources Institute