Finding a Sustainable Balance: GIS for Environmental Management - Paperback

by Sunny Fleming (Editor), Matt Artz (Editor)

Discover The Geographic Approach to help restore, preserve, and protect the environment.

As we continue to uncover and learn about ecological challenges facing our planet, the job of environmental and natural resource management organizations is becoming increasingly difficult. Finding a Sustainable Balance: GIS for Environmental Management explores a collection of real-life stories about how environmental and natural resource management organizations successfully use geographic information systems (GIS) to monitor environmental assets in real time and provide transparency for better outcomes for all, to track environmental assets, and to prevent environmental hazards from becoming disasters.

Learn how GIS can help improve operations across

• land and wildlife management,
• outdoor recreation, and
• environmental regulation.

The book also includes a section on next steps that provides helpful ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your use of GIS for environmental management. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.

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Discover The Geographic Approach to help restore, preserve, and protect the environment.

Finding a Sustainable Balance: GIS for Environmental Management explores a collection of real-life stories about how environmental and natural resource management organizations successfully use geographic information systems (GIS) to monitor environmental assets in real time, to track environmental assets, and to prevent environmental hazards from becoming disasters.

The book also includes a section on next steps that provides helpful ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your use of GIS for environmental management. A collection of online resources also complements this book.

Edited by Sunny Fleming, Esri's industry lead for the domains of environment, conservation, and natural resources, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.

Applying GIS

The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each pocket-size book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and a road map for getting started with GIS.