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Environmental sustainability practice and research have advanced
over the past decade from novelty to near-mainstream status today.
During this environmentally critical time period, sustainability
practitioner techniques, such as environmental, energy and social
auditing, other sustainability information and related systems, and
a wide variety of environmental sustainability approaches have been
developed, improved and institutionalised, advancing both the
practice and research of environmental sustainability management
and policy. However, academics and practitioners in the
sustainability field still have widely differing perspectives on
what a sustainable organisation is or might be, but seldom take the
opportunity to share these respective sustainability visions, let
alone the multiple ways to achieve them. New Horizons in Research
on Sustainable Organisations is intended to bridge this gap between
academics and practitioners with cutting-edge research from both
groups on progress towards sustainability. After working on
sustainability-related projects involving other academics, both
research- and practitioner-oriented graduate students, consultants,
managers and activists, the lead co-editors of this volume saw the
need to encourage information exchanges among differing networks of
sustainability stakeholders to create a pathway for researchers and
practitioners in the general area of organisations and the natural
environment to address issues of common interest. There are many
networks in the general subject area, but the cross-pollination of
ideas between academics and practitioners remains sketchy. New
Horizons in Research on Sustainable Organisations is intended to
present and encourage such cross-pollination. The chapters in this
volume are presented in three subsets, generally proceeding from
the most "macro" to the most "micro" in terms of perspective and
applicability. However, this arbitrary division belies the
integration from macro through meso (or mid-range) to micro levels
that is apparent in these studies. Macro approaches typically
include wider geographic scopes, greater numbers of stakeholders,
and more complex explanatory factors than micro approaches. Each
chapter adopts one or more particular sustainability world-view and
then grounds these and the other chapter elements within actual
organisations. Therefore, the reader is advised to envision not a
one-dimensional continuum but rather a circle in which the macro
view both feeds back and feeds forward to the micro view. This
volume addresses a number of intriguing and important sustainable
organisation phenomena such as multiple sustainable development
perspectives, changing environmental politics, environmental
management systems variations, voluntary environmental programme
performance, complex adaptive systems, and environmental technology
development. Additionally, several models are suggested, such as
cultivation, capabilities and business ecology frameworks.
Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is the knowledgebase
that supports the exploration and analysis of geospatial data. In
Geographic Information Science: Introductory Concepts &
Applications, the authors have designed an introductory textbook
that uses language that is student-friendly to those outside the
discipline of geography to emphasize the basic theoretical concepts
supporting this knowledgebase. In a series of chapters, the authors
present topics related to cartography, geographic information
systems (GIS), and remote sensing, using an historical perspective
as the link that ties the technologies both to each other and to
GIScience. Each topic is paired with a laboratory exercise that
familiarizes students with the hands-on application of methods used
to acquire, store, represent, analyze and interpret geospatial
data. The laboratory exercises were designed using Purdue
University's MultiSpec and ESRI's ArcGIS Pro.
New Third Edition Now Available! Written by authors with
backgrounds in GIScience and computer technology, Exploring
Geospatial Technology presents the basic tenets that undergird the
geospatial technologies of cartography, GIS, and remote sensing
using an historical perspective as the link that ties the
technologies both to each other and to GIScience. Exploring
Geospatial Technology is written in a student-friendly language to
those outside the discipline of geography. To aid comprehension,
hands-on exercises are included in each chapter. These exercises
are designed to explore the concepts presented and take advantage
of a variety of software packages, including ESRI's ArcGIS and
Purdue University's Multispec.
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