GIS for Environmental Management

Foreword vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Biodiversity 1(16) Expanding Madagascar's national parks and protected areas Pollution 17(16) Settling the dust along the international border Sidebar: GIS tracks contamination from the World Trade Center collapse Coastal zone management 33(14) Conserving California's underwater forests Wetlands 47(20) Drawing the line between wet and dry along Lake Ontario Sidebar: GIS helps preserve Japan's Kushiro Wetland Resource management 67(14) Reviving Nebraska's historic Platte River Brownfields 81(16) Reclaiming land at England's epicenter of the Industrial Revolution Change detection 97(14) Monitoring habitat in California's Central Valley Urban forest management 111(14) Seeing the trees for the city in New York Wildlife management 125(16) Saving birds of prey in northern California Military use and mitigation 141(16) Charting unexploded ordnance in West Virginia's wilderness Sidebar: DUSTRAN predicts dust dispersion from military training exercises Petroleum 157(18) Cooperating in the Gulf Coast to plan for oil spills Sidebar: NOAA goes fishing and G-WIS meets ELMR Public policy and regulation 175(10) Influencing environmental decisions in Maine Glossary 185