Global environmental change : understanding the human dimensions /
1. Prologue -- 2. Global change and social science -- 3. Human causes of global change -- 4. Human consequences and responses -- 5. Problems of theory and method -- 6. Data needs -- 7. Human resources and organizational structures -- 8. A National research program on the human dimensions of global c...
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Washington, DC :
National Academy Press,
1992.
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Taula de continguts:
- GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Summary
- HUMAN CAUSES OF GLOBAL CHANGE
- HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL CHANGE
- PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD
- DATA NEEDS
- HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM
- 1 Prologue
- THREE GLOBAL CHANGES
- GREENHOUSE GASES AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS AND THE STRATOSPHERIC OZONE LAYER
- AMAZONIAN DEFORESTATION AND THE LOSS OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
- IMPLICATIONS
- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK
- 2 Global Change and Social Science
- GLOBAL CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
- TRENDS IN GLOBAL CHANGE
- CHARACTERISTICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
- ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND HUMAN SYSTEMS
- QUESTIONS FOR NATURAL SCIENCE, QUESTIONS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE
- CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE
- KNOWLEDGE BASE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SETTING PRIORITIES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
- CONCLUSION
- 3 Human Causes of Global Change
- IDENTIFYING THE MAJOR PROXIMATE CAUSES
- A TREE-STRUCTURED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
- LIMITATIONS OF TREE-STRUCTURED ACCOUNTING
- EXPLAINING THE PROXIMATE CAUSES: THREE CASES
- THE AMERICAN REFRIGERATION INDUSTRY
- COAL COMBUSTION IN CHINA
- Causes of Present Coal Burning
- Determinants of Future Coal Burning
- FOREST CLEARING IN THE AMAZON BASIN
- Causes of Deforestation
- Alternative Futures for Amazonia
- EXPLAINING THE PROXIMATE CAUSES: SOCIAL DRIVING FORCES
- POPULATION GROWTH
- Research Needs
- ECONOMIC GROWTH
- Research Needs
- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
- Research Needs
- POLITICAL-ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS
- Research Needs
- ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS
- Research Needs
- CONCLUSIONS
- THE PROXIMATE CAUSES
- SOCIAL DRIVING FORCES
- IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH
- NOTES
- 4 Human Consequences and Responses
- UNDERSTANDING HUMAN CONSEQUENCES.
- SOME DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN RESPONSE
- Responses to Experienced Versus Anticipated Change
- Deliberate Responses Versus Actions with Incidental Effects
- Coordinated Versus Uncoordinated Responses
- Interventions at Different Points in the Process
- THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF CONFLICT
- A Current Controversy: To Mitigate or Not to Mitigate?
- Implications of Conflict About Human Response
- HUMAN RESPONSE: THREE CASES
- INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF OZONE-DEPLETING GASES
- THE U.S. ENERGY CONSERVATION ACHIEVEMENTS OF 1973-1985
- Preexisting Trends
- Uncoordinated Responses to Recent Events
- Policy Responses and Implementation
- Implications for Future Climate Change
- THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF REGIONAL DROUGHT IN THE SAHEL
- Different Droughts, Different Responses
- Relationship of Policy to Indigenous Response Systems
- SEVEN HUMAN SYSTEMS
- INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTION, JUDGMENT, AND ACTION
- Individual Judgment and Choice
- Aggregated Individual Responses
- Individuals as Social and Political Actors
- MARKETS
- SOCIOCULTURAL SYSTEMS
- Indigenous Sociocultural Systems of Adaptation to Environment
- Social Bonds and Responses to Environmental Change
- ORGANIZED RESPONSES OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT
- Communities
- Social Movements
- Corporations and Trade and Industry Associations
- NATIONAL POLICY
- National Differences in Environmental Policy
- The Environmental Decision-Making Process
- INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
- GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE
- CONCLUSIONS
- THE KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR HUMAN RESPONSES IS INHERENTLY VALUE LADEN
- HUMAN RESPONSES MUST BE ASSESSED AGAINST A CHANGING BASELINE
- HUMAN RESPONSE CAN INVOLVE INTERVENTION ANYWHERE IN THE CYCLE OFCAUSATION
- HUMAN RESPONSES AFFECT THE DRIVING FORCES OF GLOBAL CHANGE
- NOTES
- 5 Problems of Theory and Method
- INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION.
- WHY GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH NEEDS SOCIAL SCIENCE
- WHY RESEARCH ON THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE NEEDS NATURALSCIENCE
- INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- PROBLEMS OF THEORY CONSTRUCTION
- IDENTIFYING KEY RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERDEPENDENCIES
- Research Needs
- UNDERSTANDING NONLINEARITIES
- Research Needs
- UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL IRREVERSIBILITY
- Research Needs
- DEVELOPING APPROPRIATE ANALYSES FOR THE TIME SCALE OF DECADES TOCENTURIES
- Research Needs
- ANALYZING THE SPATIAL SCALES OF HUMAN ACTIVITY
- Research Needs
- DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM OF REFLEXIVITY
- Research Needs
- SELECTING APPROPRIATE METHODS
- METHODS FOR IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING
- METHODS FOR INFORMING CHOICE
- Social Impact Assessment Methodology
- Methods for Valuation
- The Appropriate Uses of Research
- CONCLUSIONS
- INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION IS ESSENTIAL
- NEW THEORETICAL TOOLS ARE REQUIRED
- METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE STRATEGY
- POST HOC ANALYSES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR EVALUATING HUMAN RESPONSES
- 6 Data Needs
- THREE HYPOTHETICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
- CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING: A CROSS-NATIONAL STUDY
- Dependent variables
- Independent variables
- HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF DEPLETION OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE
- ECONOMIC AND NONECONOMIC FORCES CAUSING LOSS OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
- DATA AVAILABILITY
- WHAT IS AVAILABLE
- AN INFORMATION NETWORK
- COSTS OF DATA
- QUALITY AND INTERPRETABILITY OF DATA
- PROBLEMS OF RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY
- RESEARCH ON MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS
- DATA COLLECTION NEEDS
- ANALYTICAL DATA AND ACCOUNTING
- SAMPLING NATIONS
- INTENSIVE LOCAL DATA COLLECTION
- 7 Human Resources And Organizational Structures
- INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES
- NATIONAL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH
- TRAINING
- INSTITUTIONALIZING COOPERATIVE RESEARCH.
- ORGANIZATION BARRIERS TO RESEARCH IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- CONCLUSION
- 8 A National Research Program On The Human Dimensions Of Global Change
- OVERARCHING ISSUES
- RESEARCH PRIORITIES
- DATA NEEDS
- HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATION
- FUNDING
- References
- Index.