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Recent Canadian experience in communicating terrain evaluation information
Summary The art of communicating results of terrain evaluation studies to decision makers has not kept pace with the development of mapping techniques. Users of geological data are often not graphically oriented, and they cannot, or will not, read maps. Yet public officials require geological information to make wise land use decisions. The geologist must, therefore, extend his role beyond the presentation of this geological maps, and use communicating skills to ensure that his information is under-stood and properly applied. To illustrate the importance of these concepts, two recently completed Canadian studies are reviewed: a terrain evaluation for a waste management project, of a 1,000 $ km^{2} $ regional municipality in southern Ontario, and a 370,000 $ km^{2} $ engineering terrain evaluation for strategic land use planning in northern Ontario.
Recent Canadian experience in communicating terrain evaluation information
Summary The art of communicating results of terrain evaluation studies to decision makers has not kept pace with the development of mapping techniques. Users of geological data are often not graphically oriented, and they cannot, or will not, read maps. Yet public officials require geological information to make wise land use decisions. The geologist must, therefore, extend his role beyond the presentation of this geological maps, and use communicating skills to ensure that his information is under-stood and properly applied. To illustrate the importance of these concepts, two recently completed Canadian studies are reviewed: a terrain evaluation for a waste management project, of a 1,000 $ km^{2} $ regional municipality in southern Ontario, and a 370,000 $ km^{2} $ engineering terrain evaluation for strategic land use planning in northern Ontario.
Recent Canadian experience in communicating terrain evaluation information
Gartner, J. F. (author)
1980
Article (Journal)
English
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