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In today's world, organizations face a multitude of problems that require an unprecedented need for tools to share information and work better together. In Working Beyond Borders: GIS for Geospatial Collaboration, see how government, industries, and others, are using location intelligence and GIS to interconnect people across jurisdictions and sectors, to respond to some of our most critical issues, such as climate change, sustainable development, racial equity, emergency management, conservation, and public health and safety.Readers will also see how organizations are integrating geospatial infrastructure to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and empower every day decision-making in communities around the world.Edited by Dr. Jill Saligoe-Simmel and Maria JordanApplying GIS The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each book is divided into relevant topic areas that include real-life case studies that will inspire new ways to solve complex problems.

Discover The Geographic Approach to help restore, preserve, and protect the environment.Finding a Sustainable Balance: GIS for Environmental Management explores a collection of real-life stories about how environmental and natural resource management organizations successfully use geographic information systems (GIS) to monitor environmental assets in real time, to track environmental assets, and to prevent environmental hazards from becoming disasters.The book also includes a section on next steps that provides helpful ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your use of GIS for environmental management. A collection of online resources also complements this book.Edited by Sunny Fleming, Esri's industry lead for the domains of environment, conservation, and natural resources, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.Applying GISThe Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each pocket-size book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and a road map for getting started with GIS.

Discover the geographic approach to enabling science for a more exceptional planet.Place matters to governments and citizens, and location intelligence and data science have never been more critical for smarter national decision-making. Addressing Earth's Challenges: GIS for Earth Sciences explores a collection of real-life stories about how geoscience, sustainable energy, environmental monitoring, climate science, weather, and marine science organizations successfully use geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize and analyze data to streamline workflows, gain competitive insight, drive decision-making, design efficient operations, and foster civic inclusion.The book also includes a section on next steps that provides helpful ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your use of GIS for earth sciences. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.Edited by Lorraine Tighe, director of earth sciences solutions at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.Applying GISThe Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each pocket-size book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and a road map for getting started with GIS.

APPLYING GISMAPPING YOUR MISSIONGIS FOR NONPROFITSImprove communication, develop deeper community insights, and measure effecctiveness. Nonprofit and non-governmental agencies around the world apply a geographic approach to help achieve their missions. They use location intelligence and GIS to bring a unique perspective to their work, to better communicate their cause, understand their community, and measure the effectiveness of what they do. GIS helps nonprofit organizations extend services, attract volunteers, expand their donor network, and shape public policies.InMapping Your Mission: GIS for Nonprofits, readers will learn how nonprofits advance their mission through engaging storytelling tools, data visualization, and spatial analysis of demographic, behavioral, economic, and environmental data to rally passionate change makers within their organization, in communities, and in government.Edited by Keith Mann and Matt Artz at Esri, Esri Press.Applying GIS The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each book is divided into relevant topic areas that include real-life case studies that will inspire new ways to solve complex problems.

Discover how educators, researchers, IT support, and administrators can transform education inside and out, now and for the future.Geographic information system (GIS) technology offers a powerful decision-making tool in various aspects of education. It gives educators a new opportunity to teach problem-solving to a tech-savvy generation of learners. Researchers can use GIS for data visualization and integration, and IT professionals can improve the offerings of their cloud-based platforms. GIS offers administrators a way to visualize and manage everything from mapping campus buildings to planning where and when to close schools and open new ones.Creating a Smarter Campus: GIS for Education explores a collection of real-life stories about education organizations doing just that with GIS. Through their ideas, plans, and goals, they help readers understand how to use GIS and integrate spatial reasoning into teaching, research, and management. A "e;next steps"e; section provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help you jump-start using GIS for education. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.Edited by Joseph Kerski, education manager at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.

Discover the geographic approach to fighting crime while engaging citizens. Protecting the People: GIS for Law Enforcement explores a collection of real-life stories about law enforcement agencies successfully using GIS for crime analysis, open policing, and field mobility. Through these stories, this book illustrates how police departments and law enforcement organizations use GIS to enable data-driven crime-analysis strategies and drive decision making in everyday operations.The case studies in this book cover:Understanding data and crime analysisStreamlining improvements to police operationsDeveloping methods for engaging citizensThe book also includes a section on next steps that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for law enforcement. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.Learn how location intelligence and the geographic approach can improve crime analysis, streamline operations, and promote community policing initiatives.

Learn how architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms work to improve sustainability objectives and advance new ideas about creating more livable cities, workplaces, and campuses as they create greater operational efficiency.Location intelligence is changing how land development and large infrastructure projects take shape. From new residential construction to planning a modern urban experience to building a high-speed rail system, a geographic approach helps pave the way to better, more sustainable designs.In Designing Our Future: GIS for Architecture, Engineering & Construction, see how the AEC industry is implementing geographic information systems (GIS) to improve workflows, bring context to large undertakings, and increase collaboration between governments, contractors, partners, and the public. With GIS, architects, engineers, and construction professionals are discovering new efficiencies, gaining deeper insights about complex projects, and transforming the way they plan, design, build, and operate in the built and natural environments.In this collection of case studies and "e;how to"e; guidance, gain an overview of how GIS was used to:Reduce the carbon footprint and mitigate future climate-related damage from a cross-country, high-speed rail project in the USDocument all above and below ground assets such as utility services, electric, gas, surface water and sewer drainage for a local transportation agencyPlan maintenance for and respond to hazards from aging structures and vulnerable hillsides using drones in JapanDesigning Our Future: GIS for Architecture, Engineering & Construction also includes a "e;next steps"e; section that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.

Discover the geographic approach to conservation land management and landscape conservation. Geographic information system (GIS) technology offers a comprehensive tool for conservation professionals.A modern GIS gives users a real-time look at their data, locations, and their relationships. When applied to conservation, it reveals dependencies and challenges across multiple environments. Through maps and apps, conservation professionals can observe the field, analyze and organize their data, and collaborate with other organizations and the public on addressing threats and opportunities found. Preserving Our Planet: GIS for Conservation explores a collection of real-life stories about conservation organizations successfully using GIS to meet challenges to biodiversity preservation in our rapidly changing world.The book also includes a section on next steps that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help you jump-start your own use of GIS for conservation. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.Edited by David Gadsden, director of conservation solutions at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.

Now that the health community is in a state of reflection, how do we put the lessons learned into practice?As we step back to examine the worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the time to think about how to raise the bar for our response to the next public health emergency. Now is the time to revisit health preparedness strategies and plans. And now is the time to review what the health community did that worked-and how we can do that again.Learning from COVID-19: GIS for Pandemics tells real-life stories about how spatial thinking became invaluable in both local and full-scale outbreaks during the COVID-19 pandemic.Needing to answer the question of "e;where"e; sat at the forefront of everyone's mind, and using a geographic information system (GIS) for real-time surveillance transformed possibly overwhelming data into location intelligence that provided agencies and civic leaders with valuable insights.Co-edited by Esri chief medical officer Dr. Este Geraghty, this book highlights best practices, key GIS capabilities, and lessons learned during the COVID-19 response that can help communities prepare for the next crisis. GIS has empowered:Organizations to use human mobility data to estimate the adherence to social distancing guidelinesCommunities to monitor their health care systems' capacity through spatially enabled surge toolsGovernments to use location-allocation methods to site new resources (i.e., testing sites and augmented care sites) in ways that account for at-risk and vulnerable populationsCommunities to use maps and spatial analysis to review case trends at local levels to support reopening of economiesOrganizations to think spatially as they consider "e;back-to-the-workplace"e; plans that account for physical distancing and employee safety needsLearning from COVID-19 also includes a "e;next steps"e; section that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS, either as a citizen scientist or a health professional. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.Now is the time to use science and data to make informed decisions for our future, and this book shows us how we can do it.

Discover a modern approach using geographic information systems (GIS) to understand threats and hazards to communities with Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management.

VALUING PLACE AND PURPOSE GIS FOR LAND ADMINISTRATION Improve land records, property valuation, sustainable development, and social stability. Location intelligence is changing the way land administration works to protect and maintain appropriate land use and achieve better economic, environmental, and social benefits. The real-life stories in Valuing Place and Purpose: GIS for Land Administration show how communities, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations implement geographic information systems (GIS) in four key areas:      · Visualizing parcels and property      · Managing land use      · Strengthening climate and conservation efforts      · Addressing land rights, equity, and social justice The book also includes a special section to help you get started using web apps, online maps, dashboards, and other GIS solutions to represent and understand the value of land and property and efficiently manage, edit, and share land parcel data more accurately. Edited by Brent Jones, director of land administration industry solutions at Esri, and Keith Mann, Esri Press. APPLYING GIS The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker, with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and suggestions for getting started with GIS.