Geospatial Technologies in Environmental Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Wilderness and Wildlife Response

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Geotechnologies in Environmental Management

      • Mark W. Patterson, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen

      Pages 1-7

   3. Modeling Post-Eruption Habitat Changes for Deer at Mount St. Helens using Remote Sensing and GIS

      • Ronald W. Davis, Louis C. Bender, Paul W. Mausel, Leonardo Chapa-Vargas, Richard E. Warner

      Pages 11-28

   4. Pyrogeography: Mapping and Understanding the Spatial Patterns of Wildfire

      • Michael J. Medler

      Pages 29-47

   5. Assisting Natural Resource Management in Mammoth Cave National Park Using Geospatial Technology

      • Songlin Fei, Matthew Crawford, Joe Schibig

      Pages 49-61

3. Glaciers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Geospatial Techniques to Assess High Mountain Hazards: A Case Study on California Rock Glacier and an Application for Management in the Andes

      • Jason R. Janke, Antonio Bellisario

      Pages 65-84

   3. Glacier Inventory: A Case in Semiarid Chile

      • Jorge Marín, José Araos

      Pages 85-99

4. Wetlands and Watersheds

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Employing a Geographic Information System for Wetlands Management in Nebraska’s Rainwater Basin

      • James W. Merchant, Patti R. Dappen

      Pages 103-117

   3. The Effects of Land Cover Change: Increasing Watershed Imperviousness in Kentucky

      • Demetrio P. Zourarakis, Brian D. Lee

      Pages 119-141

   4. Exploring the Spatially Varying Impact of Urbanization on Water Quality in Eastern Massachusetts Using Geographically Weighted Regression

      • Jun Tu

      Pages 143-162

5. Human Health and the Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Application of GIS in Evaluating the Potential Impacts of Land Application of Biosolids on Human Health

      • Kevin P. Czajkowski, April Ames, Bhuiyan Alam, Sheryl Milz, Robert Vincent, Wendy McNulty et al.

      Pages 165-186

   3. Remote Sensing, Public Health & Disaster Mitigation

      • Gilbert L. Rochon, Joseph E. Quansah, Souleymane Fall, Bereket Araya, Larry L. Biehl, Thierno Thiam et al.

      Pages 187-209

6. Back Matter

   Pages 211-212

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Geotechnologies and the Environment: Environmental Applications and Mana- ment presents an engaging and diverse array of physically-oriented GIScience applications that have been organized using four broad themes. While the book’s themes are by no means mutually exclusive, Hoalst-Pullen and Patterson provide an elegant overview of the eld that frames the collection’s subsequent thematic str- ture – Wilderness and Wildlife Response; Glaciers; Wetlands and Watersheds; and Human Health and the Environment. Over the course of the volume, the contrib- ing authors move beyond basic (and in some respects clichéd) landscape ecology of land use change to explore human-environment dynamics heretofore not emp- sized in the applied literature. In doing so, the collection presents a compelling case for the importance of developing new physically-oriented GIScience applications that reside at the nexus of social and natural systems with the explicit intent of informing public policy and/or the decision making practices of resource managers. Individually, the chapters themselves are intentionally diverse. The diversity of the approaches, their spatial context, and emphases on management applications demonstrate the many ways in which geotechnologies can be used to address small and big problems in both developed and developing regions. The collection’s int- nal coherence is derived – like the book series – from its explicit appeal to a wide variety of human-environment interactions with potential policy linkages.

• Environmental Management
• GIS
• Geoinformationssysteme
• biodiversity
• ecosystem
• geospatial
• remote sensing

• Dept. Geography & Anthropology, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, USA

  Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, Mark W. Patterson

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