GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR IMPACT ASSESSMENT Part I: GIS

Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller ()
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Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller: School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), 2000, vol. 02, issue 03, 369-414

Abstract: Impact Assessment (AI) is getting over its "teething problems" of the early 1990s, and is now trying to define, consolidate and spread best practice. It has been suggested that computer technologies like Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and/or decision-support tools like Expert Systems (ES) can play an important part in this process, and in a series of two articles we critically review these technologies, their use and their potential — and drawbacks — for IA. This first article is devoted to GIS, powerful packages that can handle spatial information quite efficiently in map form, but whose analytical capabilities are rather limited and would benefit from being articulated with other tools to make their use more friendly and efficient. The proposition underlying these articles is that these three areas (IA, GIS and ES), if properly organised, are potentially complementary and there can be mutual benefits if they are brought together. We concentrate on GIS first, ES will be discussed in the next paper.

Keywords: environment; impact assessment; environmental management; geographical information systems; expert systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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