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A number of books and workbooks about Community Mapping are available. Some of them are “how-to’s” for using GIS in community mapping while others are more conceptual. If you know of a good resource that should be listed here, please let us know (k12-lib@esri.com ).
GIS in Education
ESRI Press
Community Mapping
Making Community Connections
by The Orton Family Foundation and Dr. George May
ESRI Press, 2003, 194 pages $19.95
Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years by David Sobel
Heinemann, 1998, 176 pages [Amazon.com]
Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities
by David Sobel
The Orton Society, 2004, 96 pages [Amazon.com]
Where We Live: A Citizen’s Guide to Conducting a Community Environmental Inventory
by David F. Harker and Elizabeth Ungar
Island Press, 1995, 332 pages [Amazon.com]
Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment
by Doug Aberley (editor)
New Society Publishers, 1993, 144 pages [Amazon.com]
Giving the Land a Voice: Mapping Our Home Places from Acorn Naturalists
Other Topics
GIS for Everyone, Third Edition
By David Davis
ESRI Press, 2003, 160 pages $29.95
An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems
by Ian Heywood, Sarah Cornelius , and Steve Carver
Longman Pub Group, 1998, 296 pages [Amazon.com]
Integrating GIS and the Global Positioning System
by Karen Steede-Terry
ESRI Press, 2000, 112 pages $19.95
Conservation GIS Starter Kit
Ecotrust, 1999. $35.00
Cartography: Thematic Map Design
by Borden D. Dent
William C Brown Publishers, 1999, 448 pages [Amazon.com]
Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, 1991, 122 pages [Amazon.com]
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