
Maps tell the story of modern risk mitigation
Explore stories from the latest volume of Mapping the Nation, published by Esri Press, that illustrate how a geographic approach guides important decisions around the globe. Discover why our future depends on more coordinated and concentrated action to create a world that is healthy, prosperous, equitable, peaceful, secure, and in balance with nature. These stories, originally from Esri Blog, explain how GIS provides a means to examine and explore the dimensions of every challenge, prioritizing actions based on evidence and analysis.
GIS tracks the impacts of climate change and provides solutions to combat it to better protect our communities and our planet.
GIS provides insight into patterns of inequality and can provide common understanding across communities to effect positive change.
Using GIS, professionals enhance environmental health and eliminate harmful contaminants to help communities maintain balance between humans and nature.
Conservationists use GIS to gain insights into complex environmental challenges to better understand the interdependencies of native species and human activity and mitigate threats from climate change.
Humanitarian organizations around the world apply GIS to analyze and plan missions, mobilize field teams quickly, and monitor and evaluate their effectiveness and sustainability, and they do it in real time.
Agencies around the world manage public safety, emergency response, fire, wildland fires, and public events from beginning to end, using location intelligence derived from GIS software.
Urban and community planners are achieving effective and efficient smart planning, using a location-based, data-driven approach that prioritizes the human element in community design.
Organizations use GIS for infrastructure management to model, connect, and enable relationships of the built, social, and natural worlds with advanced visualizations and analytics across the entire infrastructure life cycle.
GIS plays a central role in sustainability efforts by providing a comprehensive ecosystem for integrating and visualizing diverse environmental data. It enables stakeholders to make informed decisions by mapping and analyzing various sustainability factors.