Books

ESRI Press offers a wide variety of books that illustrate GIS applications for federal government users.

• GIS in State Government—Volume One—The maps in this book are examples of how GIS enables states to combine data in complex ways, generate statistics, print maps and charts, and provide information to a broader audience via the Internet.
  ESRI Press, 2005
• Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS—Intelligent GIS encapsulates our knowledge and provides a foundation to help us better serve our world by improving efficiencies, decision making, planning, accountability, and communication.
  ESRI Press, 2004
• Disaster Response: GIS for Public Safety—Putting together an effective system of preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery in the face of Mother Nature's fury, and more.
  ESRI Press, 2001
• GIS in Public Policy: Using Geographic Information for More Effective Government—Innovation, flexibility, and responsiveness, the new criteria for success in the digital economy, have also become the new mandates for successful public administration.
  ESRI Press, 2000
• GIS for Everyone, Third Edition—Now everyone can create smart maps using a personal computer.
  ESRI Press, 2003
• Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity—An atlas of the American people, presenting in a dramatic, graphic fashion key data from Census 2000.
  ESRI Press, 2001
• GIS for Health Organizations—Detailed and compelling answers to the difficult questions healthcare providers ask every day about the source, course, resources, and costs involved in fighting disease.
  ESRI Press, 2000
• Transportation GIS—These fascinating case studies look at how transportation professionals increasingly rely on geographic information systems to manage equipment and infrastructure.
  ESRI Press, 1999
• Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook—GIS technology has become the one unifying component that every organization can use to plan for, respond to, and recover from, major disasters—whether natural or man-made.
  ESRI Press, 2002
• Geographic Information Systems and Science, Second Edition—Capturing and redefining the richness and diversity of GIS in an accessible form, this volume presents a clearly-defined path to a world of learning about GIS, using the Internet, and more.
  ESRI Press, 2005