Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521895693 ISBN 13: 9780521895699

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Scientists and policymakers have realized 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 necessary to monitor and understand the local dimensions of global change. This book presents the philosophy behind HERO, the methods used to put that philosophy into action, its results, and the lessons learned from the project. HERO used three strategies: it developed research protocols and data standards for collecting data; it built a web-based networking environment to help investigators share data, analyses and ideas from remote locations; and investigators field-tested these concepts by applying them in diverse biophysical and socioeconomic settings - central Massachusetts, central Pennsylvania, southwestern Kansas, and the US-Mexico border region of Arizona. The book highlights the unique focus of HERO regarding thinking and acting on complex, integrative, and interdisciplinary global change science at local scales, and is valuable for global change scientists.

About this title

Book Description:

This book presents the philosophy behind the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO), whose goal was to develop the infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change. It highlights the unique focus of HERO in thinking and acting on complex, integrative, and interdisciplinary global change science at local scales.

About the Author:

Brent Yarnal is Professor of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching interests bridge the physical and social sciences, and integrate climate change, natural hazards, land-use change, water resources, and the use of environmental information in decision making. His research focuses on vulnerability to and adaptation planning for present and future climate change, local and regional greenhouse gas emissions inventories and mitigation planning, and the role of climate information in water resource decision making. He has authored and contributed to numerous books and journal articles, and was the editor of Climate Research - Interactions of Climate with Organisms, Ecosystems and Human Societies from 1996-2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521895693
• ISBN 13: 9780521895699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Yarnal Brent, Polsky Colin, O'Brien James