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GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters (Paperback)
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GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters (Paperback)
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"GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters" is about people and places
impacted by disasters. As geographers we emphasize the spatial,
using maps to more fully understand the social processes at work.
Topics covered include, "Social" GIS and disasters, spatial
comparisons between disasters, spatial patterns in social and
health vulnerability, post-disaster health, and neighborhood scale
recovery. The book draws heavily from our ongoing experiences with
Hurricane Katrina. However, we have written this book in such a way
that instructors need not have personal experience with these
events; nor is it vital that an instructor has experience with
different geospatial technologies. The exercises included in this
book can be used by students with GIS skills, but anyone with
access to Google Earth and Google Street View can also benefit. We
believe it is important to stress the human and the spatial, not
just data and techniques. From the student's perspective, this is
not a text full of dates or numbers to memorize. We want you to
understand the social processes at work-linked by their geography.
Andrew Curtis is in the Department of Geography at the University
of Southern California. Prior to this he was Director of the "World
Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and
GIS for Public Health" at Louisiana State University. His research
interests are centered around the geography of health, with a
particular emphasis on spatial analysis and geospatial technology.
During Hurricane Katrina he helped with geospatial support for
search and rescue operations in the Louisiana Emergency Operation
Center. He continues to work on various Katrina recovery projects,
including developing new geospatial approaches that can empower the
abandoned communities of New Orleans in the fight to reestablish
their neighborhoods. Jacqueline W. Mills is in the Department of
Geography at the California State University at Long Beach. Her
research interests are focused around Geographic Information
Science (GISc) approaches to the study of natural disasters,
particularly how places recover from these events and how people
modify their environment to become disaster-resilient. Specific
interests within this larger agenda include land use, health,
policy, community participation through GISc, and geospatial risk
communication. She continues to work in post-Katrina New Orleans,
as well as in areas impacted by the 2007 Southern California
wildfires. In 2007, a team including Curtis and Mills were awarded
the Meredith F. Burrill Award by the Association of American
Geographers (AAG) for the LSU GIS Clearinghouse Cooperative an
important spatial data clearinghouse for Hurricanes Katrina, Rita
and Wilma.
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