Sustainable communities on a sustainable planet
Subtitle: the human-environment regional observatory project
By: edited by Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, James O'Brien.
Contributors: Yarnal, Brent.; Polsky, Colin.; O'Brien, James.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521895699
Subjects: Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project; Global environmental change
Description: viii, 340 p. : 26 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Infrastructure for observing local human-environment interactions / Brent Yarnal ... [et al.]; title: Theory: computing with knowledge to represent and share understanding / Mark Gahegan, William Pike, Junyan Luo; title: Infrastructure for collaboration / William Pike, Alan MacEachren, Brent Yarnal; title: Representing and reasoning with conceptual understanding / Ola Ahlqvist, Chaoqing Yu; title: Establishing vulnerability observatory networks to coordinate the collection and analysis of comparable data / Colin Polsky, Rob Neff, Brent Yarnal; title: Comparative assessment of human-environment landscape change / John Harrington, Jr. ... [et al.]; title: Landsat mapping of local landscape change: the satellite-era context / Rachel M. K. Headley ... [et al.]; title: Assessing local vulnerabilities: methodological approaches and regional contexts / Colin Polsky ... [et al.]; title: Rapid Vulnerability Assessments of exposures, sensitivities, and adaptive capacities of the HERO study sites / Colin Polsky ... [et al.]; title: Evaluating vulnerability assessments of the HERO study sites / Colin Polsky ... [et al.]; title: The mounting risk of drought in a humid landscape: structure and agency in suburbanizing Massachusetts / Colin Polsky ... [et al.]; title: A diverse human-environment system: traditional agriculture, industry, and service economy in central Pennsylvania / Brent Yarnal; title: Fossil water and agriculture in southwestern Kansas / Lisa M. Butler Harrington, Max Lu, John A. Harrington, Jr.; title: Urbanization and hydroclimatic challenges in the Sonoran Desert Border Region / Cynthia Sorrensen  Andrew Comrie; title: Lessons learned from the HERO project / Brent Yarnal ... [et al.].