GIS, human geography, and disasters
By: by Andrew Curtis and Jacqueline W. Mills
Contributors: Mills, Jacqueline W.
Publisher: University Readers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781934269862
Subjects: Natural disasters; Human geography; Geographic information systems
Description: GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters is about people and places impacted by disasters. As geographers we emphasize the spatial, using maps to more fully understand the social processes at work. Topics covered include, "Social" GIS and disasters, spatial comparisons between disasters, spatial patterns in social and health vulnerability, post-disaster health, and neighborhood scale recovery. The book draws heavily from our ongoing experiences with Hurricane Katrina. The exercises included in this book can be used by students with GIS skills, but anyone with access to Google Earth and Google Street View can also benefit.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to thinking spatially about disasters; title: An introduction to Geographic Information Systems; title: Disaster connections; title: The Johnstown Flood: part one; title: The Johnstown Flood; title: The days and weeks after: part two; title: Wildfires in the wildland; title: urban interface: The case of San Diego County, California; title: The geography of vulnerability; title: Health vulnerability; title: Art therapy and Hurricane Katrina; title: Life interrupted: The stress process in the face of natural disasters; title: The post-disaster landscape; title: The geography of recovery; title: Using the spatial video for neighborhood recovery.