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  • Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project
  • Written by author Colin Polsky
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, 11/17/2010
  • Scientists and policymakers have realised that localities are central to addressing the causes and consequences of global environmental change. The goal of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO) was to develop the infrastructure necessa
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List of contributors vii

Part I

1 Infrastructure for observing local human-environment interactions Brent Yarnal John Harrington Jr., Andrew Comrie Colin Polsky Ola Ahlqvist 1

Part II

2 Theory: computing with Knowledge to represent and share understanding Mark Gahegan William Pike Junyan Luo 34

3 Infrastructure for collaboration William Pike Alan MacEachren Brent Yarnal 34

4 Representing and reasoning with conceptual understanding Ola Ahlqvist Chaoqing Yu 59

Part III

5 Establishing vulnerability observatory networks to coordinate the collection and analysis of comparable data Colin Polsky Rob Neff Brent Yarnal 83

6 Comparative assessment of human-environment landscape change John Harrington Jr. Brent Yarnal Diana Liverman B. L. Turner II 107

7 Landsat mapping of local landscape change: the satellite-era context Rachel M. K. Headley Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr. John Harrington, Jr. Cynthia Sorrensen 137

Part IV

8 Assessing local vulnerabilities: methodological approaches and regional contexts Colin Polsky Cynthia Sorrensen Jessica Whitehead Rob Neff 155

9 Rapid Vulnerability Assessments of exposures, sensitivities, and adaptive capacities of the HERO study sites Colin Polsky Andrew Comrie Jessica Whitehead Cynthia Sorrensen Lisa M. Butler Harrington Max Lu Rob Neff Brent Yarnal 175

10 Evaluating vulnerability assessments of the HERO study sites Colin Polsky Cynthia Sorrensen Jessica Whitehead Lisa M. Butler Harrington Max Lu Rob Neff Brent Yarnal 209

Part V

11 The mounting risk of drought in a humid landscape: structure and agency in suburbanizing Massachusetts Colin Polsky Sarah Assefa Kate Del Vecchio Troy Hill Laura Merner Isaac TerceroRobert Gilmore Pontius, Jr. 229

12 A diverse human-environment system: traditional agriculture, industry, and service economy in central Pennsylvania Brent Yarnal 250

13 Fossil water and agriculture in southwestern Kansas Lisa M. Butler Harrington Max Lu John A. Harrington, Jr. 269

14 Urbanization and hydroclimatic challenges in the Sonoran Desert Border Region Cynthia Sorrensen Andrew Comrie 292

Part VI

15 Lessons learned from the HERO project Brent Yarnal John Harrington, Jr. Andrew Comrie Colin Polsky Ola Ahlqvist 317

Index 339


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