This paper presents the conceptual design of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) proposed for Victoria’s Westernport region that aims for the sustainable and integrated (whole-of-catchment) management of regional natural resources. It is a solution integrating a range of approaches including, GIS technology, a scenario management tool, state-of-art terrestrial and marine models, environmen...

An environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a decision-making process that evaluates the possible significant effects that a proposed project may exert on the environment. The EIA scoping and reviewing stages often involve public participation. Although its importance has long been recognized, public participation in the EIA process is often regarded as ineffective, due to time, budget, resourc...

Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CS, The Netherlands Geoinformatics, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Inst...

Municipal environmental protection officers have to survey local and regional air quality. Supplementary to air quality monitoring, modelling systems are gaining more and more an importance. Lohmeyer GmbH & Co. KG provides the graphical user interface SELMAGIS, able to accommodate the locally used air quality models. It is completely implemented into ESRI’s geographical information system ArcGI...

Agroforestry, the deliberate integration of trees into crop and livestock operations, has the potential to achieve many of the environmental, economic, and social objectives being demanded from working landscapes by landowners and society. To simultaneously address these diverse landowner and societal goals, a multi-scale planning process must be utilized. This planning process can be expedited...

This paper presents a new category of decision-support tools that builds on today's Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) technologies to facilitate Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GKD). This new category, named Spatial OLAP (SOLAP), has been an R&D topic for about 5 years in a few university labs and is now being implemented by early adopters in differen...

Northern areas of Pakistan have blessed with extremely beautiful natural landscapes, waterfalls, glaciated mountains, biodiversity rich valleys and forests and have extraordinary potential for ecotourism. Study is designed to propose potential sites for ecotourism in Kohistan, which is a least developed but biodiversity rich area of Pakistan.  Poor planning and mismanagement of tourism practice...