Using GIS in Ecological Management: Green Assessment of the Impacts of Petroleum Activities in the State of Texas

Geo-information technologies are valuable tools for ecological assessment in stressed environments. Visualizing natural features prone to disasters from the oil sector spatially not only helps in focusing the scope of environmental management with records of changes in affected areas, but it also fu...

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Autores principales: Merem, Edmund, Robinson, Bennetta, Wesley, Joan M., Yerramilli, Sudha, Twumasi, Yaw A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20623014
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7052101
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author Merem, Edmund
Robinson, Bennetta
Wesley, Joan M.
Yerramilli, Sudha
Twumasi, Yaw A.
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Wesley, Joan M.
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description Geo-information technologies are valuable tools for ecological assessment in stressed environments. Visualizing natural features prone to disasters from the oil sector spatially not only helps in focusing the scope of environmental management with records of changes in affected areas, but it also furnishes information on the pace at which resource extraction affects nature. Notwithstanding the recourse to ecosystem protection, geo-spatial analysis of the impacts remains sketchy. This paper uses GIS and descriptive statistics to assess the ecological impacts of petroleum extraction activities in Texas. While the focus ranges from issues to mitigation strategies, the results point to growth in indicators of ecosystem decline.
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spelling pubmed-28980392010-07-09 Using GIS in Ecological Management: Green Assessment of the Impacts of Petroleum Activities in the State of Texas Merem, Edmund Robinson, Bennetta Wesley, Joan M. Yerramilli, Sudha Twumasi, Yaw A. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Geo-information technologies are valuable tools for ecological assessment in stressed environments. Visualizing natural features prone to disasters from the oil sector spatially not only helps in focusing the scope of environmental management with records of changes in affected areas, but it also furnishes information on the pace at which resource extraction affects nature. Notwithstanding the recourse to ecosystem protection, geo-spatial analysis of the impacts remains sketchy. This paper uses GIS and descriptive statistics to assess the ecological impacts of petroleum extraction activities in Texas. While the focus ranges from issues to mitigation strategies, the results point to growth in indicators of ecosystem decline. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010-05-04 2010-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2898039/ /pubmed/20623014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7052101 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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