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Northern Quebec (Nunavik) presents an important intersection between population growth and climate change. The Inuit population of Nunavik has the fastest growth rate in any region of Canada. Land-use planning is an urgent and pressing need for northern communities built on permafrost, where...
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resulting from these initiatives facilitates and promotes the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in planning … GIS supports and enhances environmental planning processes, enabling a rapid and objective analysis of environmental … successful application of spatial data and GIS, and a number of issues remain affecting consistency and validity of results. This …
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This paper reports the findings of a survey in 2009 of European practitioners who face problems related to accessing and using spatial data when preparing reports for Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs). The survey was designed to be comparable...
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pressure on the existing water resources. This research was based on the use of GIS techniques to select the optimum sites for … water harvesting ponds within the basalt aquifer. Buffering, Union and arithmetic operations in GIS were all used in … analysing the data based on different socio-economic and physical criteria. The outcomes of the GIS analysis resulted in …
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services using GIS and readily available, existing land use/land cover datasets. Critical components of the methodology, in …
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Across the public sector, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis are increasingly ubiquitous when … making decisions involving people and places. However, historically GIS has not been prevalently applied to the various types … England to examine how embedded GIS, spatial analysis and visualisation practices are to the process of conducting impact …
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This study investigates the engagement of communities with little or no GIS expertise in the use of publicly available …
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spatial inventory data. The output is a comprehensive GIS layer containing silvicultural, geophysical and climate data, and … site-specific decision support system outputs. This paper describes the climate and inventory data, models, GIS methods …
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