Managing Our World: GIS for Natural Resources

Discover The Geographic Approach to managing natural resources for efficiency and sustainability.

Managing Our World: GIS for Natural Resources explores a collection of real-life stories about agriculture, forestry, mining, energy, pipeline, and renewable energy organizations successfully using GIS to streamline workflows, gain competitive insight, improve sustainability efforts, and more.

Learn how natural resource organizations are finding an equitable and sustainable balance between meeting the demand for Earth's natural resources and preserving those resources for future generations. The examples in this book will provide a guide for how to increase profitability, improve environmental protections, and expand societal benefits while improving the efficiency of your organization.

This book also includes a section on next steps that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for natural resources. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book. Use this book to identify where maps, spatial analysis, and GIS apps can benefit your work, and how to apply these geospatial capabilities to drive improved results.

發現地理學方法以提高自然資源的效率和可持續性。

《管理我們的世界：自然資源的地理資訊系統》探討了一系列關於農業、林業、礦業、能源、管道和可再生能源組織成功使用地理資訊系統來優化工作流程、獲得競爭優勢、改善可持續性等方面的真實故事。

了解自然資源組織如何在滿足地球自然資源需求和保護這些資源供未來世代使用之間找到公平和可持續的平衡。本書中的例子將指導您如何提高盈利能力、改善環境保護措施，擴大社會效益，同時提高組織的效率。

本書還包括一個關於下一步的部分，提供了想法、策略、工具和行動，以幫助您開始使用地理資訊系統來管理自然資源。一系列在線資源，包括額外的故事、視頻、新的想法和概念，以及可下載的工具和內容，與本書相輔相成。使用本書來確定地圖、空間分析和地理資訊系統應用程式在您的工作中可以帶來的好處，以及如何應用這些地理空間能力來推動改善的結果。