Sustainable communities on a sustainable planet : the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project /
Contributor(s): Yarnal, Brent | Polsky, Colin | O'Brien, James.
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2009Description: viii, 340 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521895699 (hbk.); 9780521895699:; 0521895693 (hbk.).Subject(s): Human-Environment Regional Observatory | Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project | Global environmental changeDDC classification: 363.7Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 363.7 YAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0075165 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Infrastructure for observing local human-environment interactions / Brent Yarnal ... [et al.] -- 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. ... [et al.] -- Landsat mapping of local landscape change: the satellite-era context / Rachel M. K. Headley ... [et al.] -- Assessing local vulnerabilities: methodological approaches and regional contexts / Colin Polsky ... [et al.] -- Rapid Vulnerability Assessments of exposures, sensitivities, and adaptive capacities of the HERO study sites / Colin Polsky ... [et al.] -- Evaluating vulnerability assessments of the HERO study sites / Colin Polsky ... [et al.] -- The mounting risk of drought in a humid landscape: structure and agency in suburbanizing Massachusetts / Colin Polsky ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.].
This title presents the methodology of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project, which developed infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change.