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Geographic Information System-Based Tools In Environmental Management, Zeinab Bedri, Michael Bruen
Geographic Information System-Based Tools In Environmental Management, Zeinab Bedri, Michael Bruen
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The authors reviewed existing modelling platforms as part of a large study of water and pollution pathways through catchments in Ireland (Irish EPA Pathways project). Worldwide, work on producing catchment management tools (CMTs) has been underway for some time and some of the tools identified here date from as early as 1989. Some of the management problems and model conceptualisations have not changed very much but now there is a stronger emphasis on water quality and more concern about a wider range of contaminants. What has changed substantially is the use of Geographical Information System and Graphical Windows interfaces as …