Find out how GIS technology helps people design solutions to such pressing problems as wild-fires, urban blights, agricultural yields, air and water quality, endangered species, disaster mitigation, resource location and extraction, coastline erosion, and public education.
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Managing earth's limited natural resources has emerged as perhaps the most crucial problem now faced by humanity. It is our hope that all of the competing interests around the globe will eventuallly use GIS to find some common ground. If you are concerned with the future, and conservation, of our planet buy this book and and discover how you can use GIS to make a difference. Please read the Excerpt section of this page for more information.
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Laura Lang is the author of "Managing Natural Resources with GIS" and "Transportation GIS," She lives in Ramona, California.
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This review is from: Managing Natural Resources with GIS (Paperback)
Very good book that explains the uses of GIS in the Natural Resource Environment. Book is very simple to understand yet can also be used by more advanced individuals for exmaples on how to use GIS.
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I don't know how to rate this product because the material on the CD only works on older operating systems, not on Windows 7.
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Somewhat dated but still relevant,
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Quite a basic introduction to the application of GIS within the Natural resources and Environmental sectors. Examples of areas of usage of GIS are presented but to no great depth. Very much relating to the view from an ESRI perspective rather than GIS as a whole - other GI Systems do exist!
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At a time when human population growth is taxing the earth's abundance as never before, natural resource managers are discovering the power of geographic information systems (GIS) to help them make the crucial decisions they face every day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
managing natural resources, frontier forests, raster data, biomass loss, stream segments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arc View, United States, New Jersey, Columbia River, Kent County, Acknowledgments Thanks, City of New York, Forest Service, New York City, Mojave Desert, Oregon Department of Forestry, Seaside High School, Trestle Bay, Dept of Finance, Pacific Ocean New!
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At a time when human population growth is taxing the earth's abundance as never before, natural resource managers are discovering the power of geographic information systems (GIS) to help them make the crucial decisions they face every day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
managing natural resources, frontier forests, raster data, biomass loss, stream segments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arc View, United States, New Jersey, Columbia River, Kent County, Acknowledgments Thanks, City of New York, Forest Service, New York City, Mojave Desert, Oregon Department of Forestry, Seaside High School, Trestle Bay, Dept of Finance, Pacific Ocean New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 2
books:
- Information Technology by Mark Scott on page 13
- Planning Support Systems: Integrating Geographic Information Systems, Models, and Visualization Tools by Richard Brail in Back Matter
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