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GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management

Although many books have been published on the application of GIS in emergency management and disaster response, this is the first one to bring together a comprehensive discussion of the...More

Geographic Information and Cartography for Risk and Crisis Management: Towards Better Solutions

Cartography and geographic information are remarkably appropriate for the requirements of early warning and crisis management. The use of geospatial technology has increased tremendously in the...More

Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

This book examines how Geographic Information Technologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The volume is a compilation of...More

Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems

Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California,...More

Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response

Earthquakes. Pandemics. Global economic crises. Terrorism. Whether natural or man-made, massive catastrophes happen far more often than decision-makers once imagined. Organizations must prepare...More

Criminal Investigative Failures

What causes competent and dedicated investigators to make avoidable mistakes, jeopardizing the successful resolution of their cases? Authored by a 21-year police veteran and university research...More

Crime Analysis With Crime Mapping

One of the first books to bring crime analysis and crime mapping to an undergraduate audience and the only introductory core text available on the topic, this Second Edition of Crime Analysis...More

Geoforensics

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the application of geoscience to criminal investigations. Clearly structured throughout, the text follows a path from the large-scale application of...More

Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems

In the last decade there has been a phenomenal growth in interest in crime pattern analysis. Geographic information systems are now widely used in urban police agencies throughout industrial...More

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.