Deep information

The stewardship of land and water natural resources is ultimately the responsibility of the owners, managers, and users of these resources. The environmental movement addressed these complex issues through an ever growing complex of top down federal, state, and local regulations each focusing on a narrow topics such as water pollution . The information revolution, which paralled these regulations, compartmentalized the data and information used in regualtion into numerous independent "data silos". This non techniacal book provides a graphic approach to undertanding how this information system has evolved, and presents recommendations on how to bridge the information gap between bureaucratic processess and knowledge needs of the stewards.