Environmental Management

GIS applications help in documenting the known hazards like geological faults or mine workings. It has many applications beyond the environmental industry. Use of GIS tools improve the process for assessing the environment effect of change (natural or man-made) upon a location's resources and the ability to measure areas, calculate degrees of change, visualize changes over time, report or share the findings.

Study of animal populations at a variety of scales, habitat corridors, migration patterns, mapping and inventorying vegetation across landscapes are made easier. GIS gives a better understanding of how elements of natural communities interact across a landscape.

GIS applications are used worldwide in ecology labs of parks, agencies, planning departments etc. to promote sustainable growth.