Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet Yarnal Polsky O'Brien Hardback

Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable PlanetThe Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project\nAuthor(s): Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, James O'Brien\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521895699, 978-0521895699\nSynopsis\nScientists 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 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 remot.