GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction

by David J. Briggs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140200799X
• ISBN13: 9781402007996
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"