Understanding Earth
For our ancestors, geographic knowledge was crucial for survival. For our own survival today, geographic knowledge plays an equally important role.

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GIS for the Oceans
Prof. Dawn Wright introduces the grand challenges in marine science and discusses how GIS can help meet the challenges. A series of case studies illustrate how GIS is already being successfully used in these areas.

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Essays on Geography and GIS
Vol. 3 of Esri's popular collection of ArcNews articles written by academicians and scientists, and dealing with trends in geography, geospatial matters, and GIS.

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Geomedicine: Can Geographic Information Make Me Healthy?
In this e-book, Bill Davenhall sets forth the notion that the emerging field of geomedicine will produce a new type of medical intelligence that will leverage national spatial data infrastructures to benefit personal health.

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Changing Geography by Design: Selected Readings in GeoDesign
GeoDesign provides a design framework and supporting technology for professionals to leverage geographic information, resulting in designs that more closely follow natural systems.

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Climate Change is a Geographic Problem
GIS can help us gain a scientific understanding of Earth’s systems at a truly global scale and make thoughtful, informed design decisions that ultimately allow humans and nature to coexist more harmoniously. 

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Managing GIS
Featuring a wide variety of important topics from spatial data management to enterprise GIS, these 14 articles are reprinted from a regular column in ArcNews written by members of URISA focusing on GIS management issues.

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