Ebook: Finding a Sustainable Balance: GIS for Environmental Management

Discover a geographic approach to restoring, preserving, and protecting the environment.

The planet faces increasing ecological challenges. As a result, the work 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 these organizations successfully use geographic information system (GIS) technology to monitor and track environmental assets in real time, increase transparency and outcomes, and prevent environmental hazards from becoming disasters.

With this book, you’ll learn how GIS can help improve operations in land and wildlife management, outdoor recreation, and environmental regulation. It also includes a section on next steps that provides helpful ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your environmental management GIS use. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, concepts, and downloadable tools is also included.