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Local, state, and federal government units and the private sector need to learn how to best use the GIS technology now in the hands of those on the front lines fighting fires, managing evacuations, and cleaning toxic spills. These case studies illustrate the best new strategies for mitigation, response, and recovery from both natural and human disasters. A wide variety of disasters and scenarios are represented, including a lethal mudslide and wildfires.

Illustrated guide to using geographic information systems to aid public safety and emergency management efforts. Shows how GIS is being used as part of a sophisticated system of preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery in the event of natural disasters and other emergencies. Landscape format. Softcover. DLC: Disaster relief--Data processing.

Through 12 case studies, this book examines various ways that innovative water resource managers are using spatial analysis and electronic mapping to provide increased functionality and reliability to the complex systems they oversee. Water management personnel learn how GIS helps keep track of maintenance needs of the hundreds of miles of historic canals in the United Kingdom, how GIS is providing the technological underpinning for early-warning avalanche systems in Switzerland, and how GIS is used to keep track of the complex system of dikes, pumps, and drainage pools that help Holland maintain its existence as the land reclaimed from the sea. Also discussed is how GIS provides an important tool for European unity, as countries who are seeking acceptance to the European economic union must use the technology to bring their water infrastructures into conformance with EU standards.

GIS, geographic information systems, is finding application in the water community on both the water and wastewater side. GIS is being considered for virtually every medium and large utility to store and coordinate increasing amounts of data. It’s utility is in managing the utilities assets from collection systems, pumping stations, holding tanks, on-site equipment, and individual dischargers. It is a complicated technology requiring significant expertise to implement. “Implementing GIS” is perhaps the only comprehensive resource on GIS for this industry. It is a new MOP written by the experts to give both theoretical and practical knowledge to the utility.

Designed for both experienced marine cartographers and less technically oriented conservationists, this wide-ranging collection of case studies shows how geographic information system (GIS) software is helping scientists, academics, and other professionals study the world's oceans and seas, map various areas of interest, and help preserve marine ecosystems and habitats. Documented in scientific detail is work that is being done in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Northwest Pacific oceans. This work highlights how geography, maps, and data analysis serve conservation efforts at a time when the world's oceans and seas are increasingly threatened by environmental perils. Also explained is how current theories in marine biology, geology, and conservation-incorporated as they are into GIS-based research systems-are having impacts on marine policies and coastal populations. For less technically oriented readers, this book helps to demonstrate why continued conservation efforts are important and ... Lire la suite

As global population continues to grow, mankind must learn to balance consumption and conservation of the planet's scarece commodoties. Geographic information system (GIS) technology brings a new perspective to the challenges faced by natural resource managers. How can agricultural yields be improved without depleting the soil? Where should timber be cut to best protect endangered species? How can landscapes be restored after the extraction of oil or minerals? What can be done to keep land development from choking rivers and coastlines with silt?

This book presents a dozen case studies of real organizations using GIS to address these and other pressing issues of natural resource management. Case studies include: Oregon Department of Forestry, City of New York, World Resources Institute, US Environmental Protection Agency, Chevron Corporation Seaside High School, Delaware Coastal Management Program, US Borax, Portand Metro, USDA Forest Service, New Jersey Dept. of ... Lire la suite

Le terroir est au cœur d'enjeux commerciaux et juridiques d'envergure internationale. La connaissance de la variété des terroirs, et de leur interaction avec les millésimes et les cépages, est à même de répondre à ces enjeux par une meilleure gestion géographique du potentiel de production. Cet ouvrage méthodologique traite des terroirs viticoles de façon concrète et illustrée, sous leurs multiples aspects : environnementaux, viticoles et œnologiques, en mettant l'accent sur le zonage viticole et la cartographie des terroirs. La première partie est consacrée aux différentes notions de terroir, aussi bien techniques, qu'historiques, juridiques ou économiques. La deuxième partie explicite les différentes démarches d'étude de terroirs, et propose un panorama des démarches entreprises en France et dans le monde. La troisième partie analyse les différents échelons d'approche des terroirs : de la parcelle à la connaissance spatiale du vignoble. La quatrième ... Lire la suite