GIS for Environmental Decision-Making
eBook - PDF

GIS for Environmental Decision-Making

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

GIS for Environmental Decision-Making

About this book

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

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780849374234
eBook ISBN
9781420007466
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Civil Engineering
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. List of Contributors
  7. CHAPTER 1: Developments in GIS for Environmental Decision-Making
  8. Part I: Data for Decision-Making
  9. CHAPTER 2: An Optimized Semi-Automated Methodology for Populating a National Land-Use Dataset
  10. CHAPTER 3: A New Framework for Feature-Based Digital Mapping in Three-Dimensional Space
  11. CHAPTER 4: From Electronic Logbooks to Sustainable Marine Environments: A GIS to Support the Common Fisheries Policy
  12. Part II: Tools to Support Decision-Making
  13. CHAPTER 5: GIS and Environmental Decision-Making: From Sites to Strategies and Back Again
  14. CHAPTER 6: Creating a Digital Representation of the Water Table in a Sandstone Aquifer
  15. CHAPTER 7: GIS and Predictive Modelling: A Comparison of Methods for Forest Management and Decision-Making
  16. CHAPTER 8: A Comparison of Two Techniques for Local Land-Use Change Simulation in the Swiss Mountain Area
  17. CHAPTER 9: 'Riding an Elephant to Catch a Grasshopper': Applying and Evaluating Techniques for Stakeholder Participation in Land-Use Planning within the Kae Watershed, Northern Thailand
  18. CHAPTER 10: Grid-Enabled GIS: Opportunities and Challenges
  19. Part III: Participation in Decision-Making
  20. CHAPTER 11: Developments in Public Participation and Collaborative Environmental Decision-Making
  21. CHAPTER 12: Using Virtual Reality to Simulate Coastal Erosion: A Participative Decision Tool?
  22. CHAPTER 13: Multiple Windows on Accessibility: An Evaluation of Campus Buildings by Mobility-Impaired and Able-Bodied Participants Using PPGIS
  23. CHAPTER 14: Visualization Techniques to Support Planning of Renewable Energy Developments
  24. CHAPTER 15: The Social Implications of Developing a Web-GIS: Observations from Studies in Rural Bavaria, Germany
  25. Subject Index