Land Use and Resource Management Using GIS

Contents: Foreword. 1. Planning support systems: a new perspective on Computer aided planning. 2. Locational models geographic information and planning support systems. 3. Sketch planning: systematic methods in planning and its support. 4. Structure of a planning support system for urban development. 5. Integrated land use and transport modelling: the tranus experience. 6. Managing natural resources. 7. Oil and gas exploration. 8. Agriculture. 9. Deforestation. 10. Air pollution. 11. Mining borate ore. 12. Clean water. 13. Reclaiming brownfields. 14. Coastal protection. 15. Forests and wildfires. 16. Endangered species. 17. Disaster planning and recovery. 18. Conservation in classrooms. 19. GIS Data for natural resource applications. Bibliography. Index.
 
"A new perspective on computer assisted planning has been emerging in the last decade. By tracing the evolving view of planning applied science in the 1960s politics in the 1970s and communication in the 1980s and the likewise evolving concern of the information sciences with data and electronic data processing EDP in the 1960s Information and management information systems (MIS) in the 1970s and knowledge and decision support systems (DSS) in the 1980s a foundation is laid on which the increasingly popular topic of planning support systems (PSS) can be seen as a continuation of these  trends toward an even broader concern with intelligence and collective design.

This book begins by arguing that the continuing failure of planners to use Computers extensively for core planning functions results less from the limitations of their hardware and software than from a limited understanding of the proper role these tools should play in planning after a review of the changing perceptions and techniques underlying current explorations the first chapter concludes by briefly considering the implications which this view has for PSS design and implementation.

Geographic information systems (GIS) are becoming widespread in management and planning affecting the very organization and operation of the planning process itself. In this book we address the problems and potential of such systems particularly in relation to the analytical predicative and prescriptive models on which strategic planning processes are based.

This book will be of immense help to all those contemplating to acquire expert knowledge of land use and resource management using GIS techniques." (jacket)