GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9781402007996 Publisher: Springer Netherlands Publication date: 08/31/2002 Series: NATO Science Series: IV: , #11 Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002 Pages: 326 Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.24(d) Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, integration, interrogation, modelling, analysis and visualisation of data - tools that are already used for policy support in a wide range of areas at almost all geographic and administrative levels. This holds especially for emergency preparedness and health risk reduction, which are all essentially spatial problems. To date, however, many initiatives have remained disconnected and uncoordinated, leading to less powerful, less compatible and less widely implemented systems than might otherwise have been the case. The important matters discussed here include the probabilistic nature of most environme