Jack Dangermond

The Power of Where (eBook, ePUB)

A Geographic Approach to the World's Greatest Challenges

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If you've never heard of geographic information systems (GIS), The Power of Where is the book for you, and if you think you know what GIS is, you might be surprised to learn how far it has advanced.

From the Ring of Fire to the Fertile Crescent, this book shows through its maps and stories how a growing GIS community is facing down humanity's big challenges. Central to the book is the geographic approacha way of solving problems that uses spatial location to perceive and understand patternsfrom wildlife migration and rising seas to urban planning and food production. Its message arises from a deep human sense of place and conviction that this collaborative approach can help us confront climate change, hunger, water scarcity, inequity, biodiversity loss, and issues large and small in our everyday lives.

Explore live examples from the book and learn more about interactive mapping and the tools of modern GIS at powerofwhere.com.

Jack Dangermond, the cofounder and president of Esri, is internationally acknowledged as the leading visionary in the field of GIS technology. For more than 50 years he has guided Esri's GIS mapping and analytic technologies worldwide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Esri Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781589486072
• Artikelnr.: 70303794

Autorenporträt

Widely acknowledged as the leading visionary in the field of geographic information system (GIS) technology, Jack Dangermond and his wife, Laura, launched the Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 with a shared vision that system thinking along with computer mapping and spatial analysis could help people design a better future. For more than 50 years, their vision has guided Esri's GIS mapping and analytic technologies worldwide.

Their lifelong involvement in conservation dates to the early years of Esri when they began designing parks and planting trees in their community. In the decades since, they have donated thousands of trees to area schools, parks, and the community to support the local urban forest. More recently, they purchased and donated 25,000 acres of grassland, chaparral, oak woodland, and forest along the Central California coast to The Nature Conservancy to protect a biodiverse landscape known as the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve.

Jack's life work has brought many honors, including the Planet and Humanity Medal from the International Geographical Union, the Champions of Earth Award from the United Nations, and the Alexander Graham Bell Medal from the National Geographic Society. Jack and Laura live in their hometown of Redlands, CA, where Esri is based.