Tag clouds from Fall 2012 GIS class

In class today, I asked everyone to share what they thought of as the 2 big challenges facing the world, 2 possible GIS-related methods that could be used to examine the challenges, and 2 possible data products or output products that might be used in the process. Here are the results!

Challenges facing us in the 21st century:

biodiversity loss chronic disease climate change economic inequality energy environmental wealth equity fire ghg emissions human information transparency infrastructure land use oak conservation population growth public participation renewable energy science communication social transportation trust water availability

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Data used and products created:

air quality atmospheric biodiversity hotspots blogs cell phone participation census climate layers climate predictions dem ecosystem threats food environment forests gdp groundwater conductivity income land use lidar population population demography population density precipitation property boundaries remote sensing residences risk zones socio economic data species distributions storms streets surveys temperature threat map tweets unemployment data urban development vegetation water sources webgis wetlands youth mapping

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Cool stuff! On with GIS Fall 2012.