Titre : | Sustainable communitites on a Sustainable planet |
Auteurs : | B. YARNAL, - Auteur ; C. POLSKY, - Auteur ; J. O'brien, - Auteur |
Type de document : | ouvrage |
Editeur : | Cambridge [GBR] : *** Cambridge University Press, 2009 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-521-89569-9 |
Format : | 340 p. |
Langues: | = Anglais |
Mots-clés: | Environment ; Planet |
Résumé : |
Scientists and policymakers have come to realize that localities are central to addressing the causes and consequences of global environmental change. Despite this realization, there has been no systematic effort to monitor global change in local places. The goal of the human-environment régional observatory project (HERO) was to develop the infrastructure necessary to scrutinize and understrand the local dimensions of global change, emphasizing the interactions betwenn poeple and their environment that make them vulnerable to global change.
This book presents the philosophy behind HERO, the methods used to put that philosophy into action, the results of those actions, and the lessons learned from the project. HERO used three strategies: it developed research protocols and data standards for collecting date; it built a web-based networking invironment 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 on how to think about and act on complex, integrative, and interdisciplinary global change science at local scales. It is a valuable resource for global change scientists concerned with collaborating and comparing case studies across time and place. |
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