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Any commitment to the development of environmental monitoring and risk management information systems must be long term in nature given the complexity of the issues that are involved. This has massive organizational and interorganizational implications that need to be taken fully into account before a commitment is made to implement such a system. In the process, it is necessary to recognize that many things that may be technically feasible may not automatically be worth the organizational and interorganizational effort that will be required to implement and maintain them. With these considerations in mind the chapter sets out three conditions for the effective utilization of geographic information systems in organizations of the kind encountered in the health and environmental fields.
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Masser, I., Campbell, H. (1995). Geographical Information Systems in Organizations: Some Conditions for Their Effective Utilization. In: De Lepper, M.J.C., Scholten, H.J., Stern, R.M. (eds) The Added Value of Geographical Information Systems in Public and Environmental Health. The GeoJournal Library, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-31560-7_19
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