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Author National Conference on GIS Research UK (12th : 2004 : Norwich, England)

Title GIS for environmental decision-making / editors, Andrew Lovett and Katy Appleton
Published Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Innovation in GIS
Innovation in GIS
Contents 1. Development in GIS for environmental decision-making -- Pt. 1. Data for decision-making -- 2. An optimized semi-autonomous methodology for populating a national land-use dataset -- 3. A new framework for feature-based digital mapping in three-dimensional space -- 4. From electronic logbooks to sustainable marine environments: a GIS to support the common fisheries policy -- Pt. 2. Tools to support decision-making -- 5. GIS and environmental decision-making: from sites to strategies and back again -- 6. Creating a digital representation of the water table in a sandstone aquifer -- 7. GIS and predictive modelling: a comparison of methods for forest management and decision-making -- 8. A comparison of two techniques for local land-use change simulation in the Swiss mountain area -- 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 -- 10. Grid-enabled GIS: opportunities and challenges -- Pt. 3. Participation in decision-making -- 11. Developments in public participation and collaborative environmental decision-making -- 12. Using virtual reality to simulate coastal erosion: a participative decision tool? -- 13. Multiple windows on accessibility: an evaluation of campus buildings by mobility-impaired and able-bodied participants using PPGIS -- 14. Visualization techniques to support planning of renewable energy developments -- 15. The social implications of developing a web-GIS: observations from studies in rural Bavaria, Germany
Summary "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 the current state of GIS for environmental decision-making and emphasizes the importance of matters related to data, analysis,and modeling tools, as well as stakeholder participation."
"The book is divided into three sections, which effectively relate to three key aspects of the decision-making process as supported by GIS: data required, tools being developed, and aspects of participation. The first section stresses the ability to integrate data from different sources as a defining characteristic of GIS and illustrates the benefits that this can bring in the context of deriving land use and other information. The second section discusses a range of issues concerning the use of GIS for suitability mapping and strategic planning exercises through illustrative examples. The last section of the book focuses on the use of GIS-based techniques to facilitate public participation in decision-making processes. In particular, it provides an overview of developments in this area, concentrating on how GIS, modeling, and 3D landscape visualization techniques are gradually achieving closer integration."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis GIS
Notes Papers from the GIS Research UK (GISRUK) 12th Annual Conference held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich; April 28-30, 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Innovations in GIS no:12
Subject Environmental monitoring -- Data processing -- Congresses.
Environmental policy -- Decision making -- Congresses.
Environmental policy -- Decision making -- Equipment and supplies -- Congresses.
Environmental policy -- Decision making.
Environmental sciences -- Information technology -- Congresses.
Geographic information systems -- Congresses.
Geographic information systems.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Appleton, Katy, 1975-
Lovett, Andrew A.
University of East Anglia.
LC no. 2007034392
ISBN 0849374235 (alk. paper)
9780849374234 (alk. paper)
Other Titles Geographic information systems for environmental decision-making