Global Change in Local Places

Project Description

The NASA funded "Global Change in Local Places" (GCLP) project links integrated studies of local places with global models of climate and ecosystem change to enhance scientific understanding of:

The nature of anthropogenic environmental change

The forces driving human-induced changes

Opportunities to mitigate or adapt to such changes

The theory and methods of integrated assessment

GCLP's method for linking localities to global change is to estimate, for three study areas for the period 1970-2020, changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols, and land cover reflectance, in the human activities that produce them, and in the economic and social forces that drive those human activities.

This first phase will analyze the three study areas shown on the map below. Click on each area to learn more:

Blue Ridge/Piedmont of North Carolina

The Highlands/Ogallala area of Kansas

Great Lakes/Manufacturing Belt of Ohio

To learn more about the GCLP Project and Global Change visit these sites:

The Global Change in Local Places Bibliography
This site provides an extensive list of resources that have been utilized for the project

The Association of American Geographers Home Page
The AAG is the sponsoring organization for the project

The CIESIN Home Page
Ciesin provides support for the project

This page was created and is maintained by the Geography and Planning Department at Appalachian State University. Visit our page at http://www.geo.appstate.edu Questions or comments can be sent to ASU GCLP