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Peer reviewedFelleman, John, Ed. – Government Information Quarterly, 1990
Six papers on geographic information systems cover the future of geographic information systems, land information systems modernization in Wisconsin, the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) System of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems and sustainable development,…
Descriptors: Cartography, Census Figures, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Download full textNash, Roderick – 1978
This report reviews the problems of protecting nature in a heavily industrialized democracy such as the United States. Factors contributing to the establishment of protected areas in the United States are traced from the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 to the present. Arguments in defense of wilderness areas consider nature as: (1) a…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Environment), Ecology
