Contents

pp v-vi

List of contributors

pp vii-viii

Part I

1 - Infrastructure for observing local human–environment interactions

pp 1-12

Part II

2 - Theory: computing with knowledge to represent and share understanding

pp 13-33

3 - Infrastructure for collaboration

pp 34-58

4 - Representing and reasoning with conceptual understanding

pp 59-82

Part III

5 - Establishing vulnerability observatory networks to coordinate the collection and analysis of comparable data

pp 83-106

6 - Comparative assessment of human–environment landscape change

pp 107-136

7 - Landsat mapping of local landscape change: the satellite-era context

pp 137-154

Part IV

8 - Assessing local vulnerabilities: methodological approaches and regional contexts

pp 155-174

9 - Rapid Vulnerability Assessments of exposures, sensitivities, and adaptive capacities of the HERO study sites

pp 175-208

10 - Evaluating vulnerability assessments of the HERO study sites

pp 209-228

Part V

11 - The mounting risk of drought in a humid landscape: structure and agency in suburbanizing Massachusetts

pp 229-249

12 - A diverse human–environment system: traditional agriculture, industry, and the service economy in central Pennsylvania

pp 250-268

13 - Fossil water and agriculture in southwestern Kansas

pp 269-291

14 - Urbanization and hydroclimatic challenges in the Sonoran Desert Border Region

pp 292-316

Part VI

15 - Lessons learned from the HERO project

pp 317-338

Index

pp 339-340