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Title Sustainable communities on a sustainable planet : the human-environment regional observatory project / edited by Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, James O'Brien
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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]
Summary Presents the methodology of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project, which developed infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project
Global environmental change.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
Global environmental change
Form Electronic book
Author Yarnal, Brent.
Polsky, Colin
O'Brien, James.
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