Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts: Maps, Archives, and Timelines

ISBN-13: 9781138747319 / Angielski

Sandra L. Arlinghaus;Joseph J. Kerski (Environmental Systems ;Ann Evans Larimore

Opis

Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts: Maps, Archives, and Timelines cultivates the spatial thinking "habit of mind" as a critical geographical view of how the world works, including how environmental systems function, and how we can approach and solve environmental problems using maps, archives, and timelines. The work explains why spatial thinking matters as it helps readers to integrate a variety of methods to describe and analyze spatial/temporal events and phenomena in disparate environmental contexts. It weaves together maps, GIS, timelines, and storytelling as important strategies in examining concepts and procedures in analyzing real-world data and relationships. The work thus adds significant value to qualitative and quantitative research in environmental (and related) sciences. Features Written by internationally renowned experts known for taking complex ideas and finding accessible ways to more broadly understand and communicate them. Includes real-world studies explaining the merging of disparate data in a sensible manner, understandable across several disciplines. Unique approach to spatial thinking involving animated maps, 3D maps, GEOMATs, and story maps to integrate maps, archives, and timelines-first across a single environmental example and then through varied examples. Merges spatial and temporal views on a broad range of environmental issues from traditional environmental topics to more unusual ones involving urban studies, medicine, municipal/governmental application, and citizen-scientist topics. Provides easy to follow step-by-step instructions to complete tasks; no prior experience in data processing is needed.

Spis treści

Section I: Introductory Matter 1. Spatial Thinking: Maps, the New Paradigm 2. Spatial Thinking: Archives and Timelines 3. Spatial Thinking: Book Structure Section II: Animaps, 1990s 4. Animaps: Varroa Honeybee Mite 5. Animap Timelines: The Space-Time Pattern of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Syria 1990–1997 6. Animap Abstraction: The Clickable Map, Virtual Reality, and More Section III: 3D Maps: Georeferencing, Turn of the Millennium 7. 3D Maps: Varroa Honey Bee Mite and More 8. 3D Charts: Greater London, 1901–2001: Georeferencing of Population Data and Rank–Size Patterns 9. 3D Charts: Air Pollution Changes in Metropolitan Detroit, 1988–2004 10. 3D Tree Inventory: Geosocial Networking: An Ann Arbor Before-and-After Study 11. 3D Georeferencing: Downtown Ann Arbor Creek Images, Revisited Section IV: GEO MATs, 2000s 12. Varroa GEOMAT: Honeybee Mite 13. Groundwater GEOMAT: Google Earth Applications in a Community Information System 14. Pacemaker GEOMAT: My Heart Your Heart: Organization of Efforts Linked by QR Codes 15. Detroit GEOMAT: Chene Street History Study: Scale Transformation, Layering, and Nesting 16. GEOMAT Guide: Summary: Study the Past, Understand the Present, Prepare for the Future Section V: Story Maps, 2010s 17. Types of Story Maps 18. Varroa Story Map: All Together Now 19. Tree Canopy Story Map: Health Impact Assessments Inform Community Tree Planting and Climate Adaptation Strategies 20. Web Maps as Story Telling 21. In Closing: Spatial Thinking, from Evolution to Revolution

O autorze

Sandra L. Arlinghaus holds a Ph.D. in theoretical geography (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and other degrees and advanced education in mathematics (from Vassar College, the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, and Wayne State University). She holds an M.A. in Geography from Wayne State University, an A. B. in Mathematics from Vassar College, and a High School Diploma from the University of Chicago, Laboratory Schools. She has published over 300 books and articles, many in peer-reviewed publications. She continues innovative approaches in publication as creator of Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics, perhaps the world’s first online peer-reviewed publication (1990-), and as co-creator with William C. Arlinghaus and Frank Harary of John Wiley & Sons first eBook in 2002. Dr. Arlinghaus is the co-author of CRC Press' book Spatial Mathematics: Theory and Practice through Mapping, published in 2013