Hệ thống thông tin địa lý và công nghệ không gian có liên quan đã trở thành công cụ quan trọng cho các cơ quan quản lý đất đai để quản lý tài nguyên và bảo vệ môi trường. Ngày càng có môi trường và bảo tồn chức phi lợi nhuận sử dụng GIS trong hoạt động của mình để hiểu rõ hơn và ủng hộ cho các cộng đồng của họ. Ứng dụng hiện tại dao động từ hàng tồn kho của các địa điểm phát hiện con cú, so sánh chuyên đề chì độc hại và nghèo đói,. | Chapter 12 Geographic information systems in the environmental movement Renée E. Sieber INTRODUCTION Geographic Information Systems and related spatial technologies have become important tools for land management agencies to administer resources and protect the environment. Increasingly environmental and conservation non-profits use GIS in their own activities to better understand and advocate for their communities. Current applications range from inventories of spotted owl locations thematic comparisons of toxic lead and poverty and models of sustainable forest harvesting to scenarios and solutions for urban sprawl. GIS like many computing applications holds great promise for environmental non-profits to maximize their traditionally limited resource base. Just as the word processor and desktop publishing have helped to publicize causes and the Internet has provided an avenue for mass mobilizations GIS could enable organizations to present a visually compelling image of an issue and quickly analyse data from disparate sources. Over time GIS has become increasingly affordable spatial digital data seems ubiquitous. GIS could provide a critical implement to groups struggling to impact politics and empower environmentalist for social change. Given their fragile resource base particularly among the grassroots environmentalists may struggle with system adoption and data acquisition. The GIS literature has long identified inadequate resources as an impediment to successful implementation Croswell 1991 . The PPGIS literature is even more pointed GIS adoption might subvert the grassroots raison d etre. This author presumes that given sufficient information non-profits have the right to make their own decisions about adoption. This chapter investigates the use and value of GIS from the vantage of activists within the environmental movement. It describes applications of GIS and computing technology by environmentalists. Their usage is compared to the literature on GIS .
