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Suitability Science and Management

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Managing Geo-Based Challenges

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My association with GIS based suitability analysis developed from being involved with supervising student projects whist working at Coventry University. Then I dealt with selecting potential sites for landfills and wind farms. Having seen the power that GIS encompass in terms of spatial and temporal analysis in this context, I used the same approach for modeling optimum sites for locating reservoirs in Malaysia and in modeling the optimum routes for linking the potential/proposed sites to demand areas. In the Caribbean region, I developed some work for locating wind farms and landfill sites.

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  1. Office of the Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Rasti Road, Hewler, Federal Region of Kurdistan, Iraq

    Serwan M. J. Baban

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Baban, S.M.J. (2014). Suitability Science and Management. In: Managing Geo-Based Challenges. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07380-4_5

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