In The Power of Where: A Geographic Approach to the World’s Greatest Challenges, author Jack Dangermond, Esri cofounder and president, draws on his 60 years of research and experience in the industry to argue that GIS and the geographic approach are critical to tackling the biggest challenges of our time—climate, biodiversity, poverty, health, and social justice—on scales from local to global. It features the work of the GIS community, whose members have advanced the application of the geographic approach through GIS technology to envision and build a brighter future.
This lavishly illustrated book contains 490 GIS maps packed into its 300 pages. More than 90 percent of these maps contain information layers from multiple GIS organizations. They show the ways that geographic science is transforming how people do their work. With a foreword by James Fallows, best-selling author and writer for The Atlantic, stories from GIS users demonstrate how the geographic approach can be used to better understand Earth. Esri Press, July 2024, 300 pp., print ISBN: 9781589486065 and ebook ISBN: 9781589486072.
