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A Fluid Situation: Cities Seek Online Platform for Citizen Action to Fix Stormwater Problems

Pressure is building on public officials to embrace "green" building and management strategies, and constrain the skyrocketing costs of infrastructure projects. A movement is underway to use green infrastructure to counteract the environmentally damaging impact of urbanization. Urban stormwater and its associated pollution are a particularly acute problem. Lisa Epstein and Phillip Pridmore Brown of Thetus Corporation describe a project in Portland, OR, that addresses these concerns.

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Ecological Restoration: Principles, Values, and Structure of an Emerging Profession
The field of ecological restoration is a rapidly growing discipline that encompasses a wide range of activities and brings together practitioners and theoreticians from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, ranging from volunteer backyard restorationists to highly trained academic scientists and professional consultants. Ecological Restoration offers for the first time a unified vision of ecological restoration as a field of study, one that clearly states the discipline's precepts and emphasizes issues of importance to those involved at all levels. In a lively, personal fashion, the authors discuss scientific and practical aspects of the field as well as the human needs and values that motivate practitioners. From Island Press, 2008.

Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing
In an age of unprecedented proliferation of data from disparate sources the urgency is to create efficient methodologies that can optimize data combinations and at the same time solve increasingly complex application problems. Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing explores the tremendous potential that lies along the interface between GIS and remote sensing for activating interoperable databases and instigating information interchange. It concentrates on the rigorous and meticulous aspects of analytical data matching and thematic compatibility - the true roots of all branches of GIS/remote sensing applications. However closer harmonization is tempered by numerous technical and institutional issues, including scale incompatibility, measurement disparities, and the inescapable notion that data from GIS and remote sensing essentially represent diametrically opposing conceptual views of reality. From Wiley, 2008.

GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making
Although much has been written on evidence-based policy making, this is the first single volume to address the potential contribution of GIS in this area. This book covers the development of new methodological approaches, emphasizing the identification of spatial patterns in social phenomena. Considering the use of technology to involve the public in decision making, it examines organizational issues, including the development of new tools for policy making. This text brings together the results of researchers working across the entire spectrum of evidence-based policy making, from exploring new data sources and methodologies to bringing GIS-based methods to the public and to policy-makers. From CRC, 2007.

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