Sustainable communities on a sustainable planet : the human-environment regional observatory project /

Presents the methodology of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project, which developed infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Yarnal, Brent, Polsky, Colin, O'Brien, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project.
Global environmental change.
Changement global (Environnement)
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Infrastructure for observing local human-environment interactions / Brent Yarnal [and others]
  • Theory: computing with knowledge to represent and share understanding / Mark Gahegan, William Pike, Junyan Luo
  • Infrastructure for collaboration / William Pike, Alan MacEachren, Brent Yarnal
  • Representing and reasoning with conceptual understanding / Ola Ahlqvist, Chaoqing Yu
  • Establishing vulnerability observatory networks to coordinate the collection and analysis of comparable data / Colin Polsky, Rob Neff, Brent Yarnal
  • Comparative assessment of human-environment landscape change / John Harrington, Jr. [and others]
  • Landsat mapping of local landscape change: the satellite-era context / Rachel M.K. Headley [and others]
  • Assessing local vulnerabilities: methodological approaches and regional contexts / Colin Polsky [and others].
  • Rapid Vulnerability Assessments of exposures, sensitivities, and adaptive capacities of the HERO study sites / Colin Polsky [and others]
  • Evaluating vulnerability assessments of the HERO study sites / Colin Polsky [and others]
  • The mounting risk of drought in a humid landscape: structure and agency in suburbanizing Massachusetts / Colin Polsky [and others]
  • A diverse human-environment system: traditional agriculture, industry, and service economy in central Pennsylvania / Brent Yarnal
  • Fossil water and agriculture in southwestern Kansas / Lisa M. Butler Harrington, Max Lu, John A. Harrington, Jr.
  • Urbanization and hydroclimatic challenges in the Sonoran Desert Border Region / Cynthia Sorrensen Andrew Comrie
  • Lessons learned from the HERO project / Brent Yarnal [and others].

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