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" Sustainable communities on a sustainable planet : "
edited by Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, James O'Brien.
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1013643
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b768013
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Sustainable communities on a sustainable planet : : the human-environment regional observatory project /\ edited by Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, James O'Brien.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) :: illustrations
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0511633149
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: 0511634358
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: 0511635699
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: 9780511633140
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: 9780511634352
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: 9780511635250
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: 9780511635694
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0521895693
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9780521895699
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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].
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| Abstract
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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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Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project.
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Global environmental change.
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Global environmental change.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Environmental Policy.
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SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)
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363.7
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GE149.S87 2009eb
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O'Brien, James.
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Polsky, Colin.
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Yarnal, Brent.
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