Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet : The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project
Brent. Yarnal
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (350 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Part I; 1 Infrastructure for observing local human-environment interactions; Part II; 2 Theory: computing with knowledge to represent and share understanding; 3 Infrastructure for collaboration; 4 Representing and reasoning with conceptual understanding; Part III; 5 Establishing vulnerability observatory networks to coordinate the collection and analysis of comparable data; 6 Comparative assessment of human-environment landscape change; 7 Landsat mapping of local landscape change: the satellite-era context; Part IV. - 14 Urbanization and hydroclimatic challenges in the Sonoran Desert Border RegionPart VI; 15 Lessons learned from the HERO project; Index. - 8 Assessing local vulnerabilities: methodological approaches and regional contexts9 Rapid Vulnerability Assessments of exposures, sensitivities, and adaptive capacities of the HERO study sites; 10 Evaluating vulnerability assessments of the HERO study sites; Part V; 11 The mounting risk of drought in a humid landscape: structure and agency in suburbanizing Massachusetts; 12 A diverse human-environment system: traditional agriculture, industry, and the service economy in central Pennsylvania; 13 Fossil water and agriculture in southwestern Kansas. - Presents the methodology of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project, which developed infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change.
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| ISBN | 0521895693. - 9780521895699
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