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Feasibility of geographic information systems approach for natural resource management

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Geographic information systems (GIS) technology is altering the work environment for planning and decision-making tasks. This article is an account of a resource application that make use of the GIS technology. It provides some cost estimates and reasons for the fairly slow development toward an integrated resource data base for environmental planning and management. It tries to identify some of the constraints of such an integrated data-base approach toward environmental assessment.

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Lai, P. Feasibility of geographic information systems approach for natural resource management. Environmental Management 14, 73–80 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02394021

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