| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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]. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project.
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Global environmental change.
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Global environmental change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Yarnal, Brent.
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Polsky, Colin.
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O'Brien, James.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sustainable communities on a sustainable planet. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2009 9780521895699 (DLC) 2009502494 (OCoLC)316824245 |
| ISBN |
9780511635250 (electronic book) |
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0511635257 (electronic book) |
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0511634358 (electronic book) |
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9780511634352 (electronic book) |
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9780511633140 (electronic book) |
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0511633149 (electronic book) |
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9780511635694 (electronic book) |
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0511635699 (electronic book) |
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9780521895699 (hardback) |
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0521895693 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612382246 |
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MYILIB_CUp |
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