1st Edition
GIS for Environmental Decision-Making
282 Pages
by
CRC Press
282 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
288 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Environmental applications have long been a core use of GIS. However, the effectiveness of GIS-based methods depends on the decision-making frameworks and contexts within which they are employed. GIS for Environmental Decision-Making takes an interdisciplinary look at the capacities of GIS to integrate, analyze, and display data on which decisions must be based. It provides a broad prospective on... Read more
Introduction. Data for Decision-Making. Tools to Support Decision-Making. Participation in Decision-Making.
Biography
Andrew A. Lovett, Katy Appleton
"As a landscape ecologist interested in how spatial tools and analysis can assist planning for a sustainable future, I feel that this book is an important and useful text for highlighting the vital role that GIS can play in helping to make well informed decisions and aid planning."
– D. M. Pearson, Charles Darwin University, in Journal of Spatial Science, December 2008
