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GIS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT [E-BOOK]

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Editor Michele Campagna is lecturer in urban and regional planning in the Departmentof Land Engineering (DIT), Universitá Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy, where he teachesplanning and GIS. His research focuses on GIS applications in urban, regional, andenvironmental planning, and on planning support systems.

Acknowledgments In the second half of the 1990s, the GIS academic community has grownconsiderably in Europe. Many research conferences, workshops, summer schools, orother GI-related meetings were held, contributing to the creation of amultidisciplinary network of researchers sharing the common interest for GIScience,with the active participation of young researchers collaborating and sharing theirachievements. Thus I would like to acknowledge the work carried out by the followingorganizations: the European Science Foundation, for promoting the EuropeanResearch Conferences on GIS; the Association of European Geographic InformationLaboratories in Europe (AGILE), for organizing the annual conferences; the Centrefor Spatially Integrated Social Sciences funded by the National Science Foundation,for the CSISS summer workshops; the Vespucci Initiative Founders, for the Vespuccisummer schools; the eduGI.net, for the first summer school in GIScience; and theUNIGIS, for the international summer schools in GIS. All these initiatives contributedto stimulate not only scientific interest and research results exchanges, but also

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overall networking by early-career scientists. A special thank you goes to thoseindividuals within or collaborating with these organizations for contributing to thesuccess of these events. It is within this framework that I was tempted by the challenge to have thisestablished yet informal network of scientists, researchers, and GI practitionersdiscuss opportunities for GIS application in a cross-cutting field of utmostimportance for our society such as sustainable development planning anddecision-making by integrating our diverse perspectives in the present work. Mostof the invited contributors gave immediate positive responses to the first call forexpression of interest. They come mainly from European and North Americanacademia, but also from the public and private sectors. I am very grateful to the 44 contributors from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France,Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, The Netherlands,United Kingdom, and the United States for taking the time and making the effort towrite the chapters presenting their research results in light of the common topic ofsustainable development, and for their valuable collaboration to the peer review.

Thanks to Max Craglia, Andrea De Montis, Giancarlo Deplano, Werner Kuhn, IanMasser, Jonathan Raper, and two anonymous referees for their encouragingcomments to the early project proposal and their advice and suggestions, whichwere essential for the editorial work.

Finally, I wish to thank Randi Cohen, Taisuke Soda, Yulanda Croasdale, Theresa delForn, and Amy Rodriguez from Taylor & Francis for their kind support to the editorialproject. - Michele Campagna - Cagliari, Italy.

I hope this e-book would be very useful!

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Regan Leonardus

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