Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Socio-economic and Environmental Indicators for Sustainable Development

This book presents most recent research studies on mapping and spatial analysis of socio-economic and environmental indicators used by various national and international contributors to regional development projects. It gathers the best contributions to the 1^st International Conference on Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Socio-Economic and Environmental Indicators for the Local and Regional Sustainable Development. The conference was held in southern Tunisia, Tataouine in March 2015.The research studies focused on generating and analyzing indicators in various domains of Agriculture, Energy, Industry, Tourism, Transport, Urban Planning, Exploitation of Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Health, Environment, Education, Information and Communication Technologies, Social Affairs and Employability, and Culture and Sport. Socio-economic and environmental indicators are important in regional development plans and strategies as they allow to observeand analyze changes in the economic growth and to measure their impact on the environment and on social networks/daily life of citizens. On the basis of well-defined geomatic approaches, and particularly, through sophisticated digital mapping and spatio-temporal analyses, authors focused on retrieving indicators to evaluate the exploitation rate of natural resources, intensity of the energy consumption in various economic sector, net migratory flows, quality checking of the air in urban areas, adaptation to climate change, and vulnerability of the coastal domain and risk of marine submersion due to sea-level rise. The book is of interest not only to investors and contributors to regional development projects, but also to all relevant policy makers.  

• Digital Map
• Spatial Analysis
• Open Data
• Natural Ressources
• Geographic Information Systems
• Socio-Economic and Environmental Indicators
• Sustainable Development
• Environmental Geography
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• quantitative geology

• National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

  Noamen Rebai

• Geopac Research Center, Scientific Institute, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

  Mohamed Mastere

Dr. Noamen Rebai is an Associate Professor at the "École Nationale des Ingénieurs de Tunis", Tunisia. He received his doctoral degree in Geodesy from the "Observatoire de Paris", France in 1992. Noamen is an expert in Numerical Topography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and analysis of spatial data. He published about 10 papers in international refereed journals.  

Dr. Mohamed Mastere is a full Professor at the "Institut National d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme" in Rabat, Morocco. He is expert in Geography, Geomorphology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Dr. Mastere has published about 12 papers in international refereed journals.     

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