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University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), 44
Urban climatology, 80
Urban policy, 111-113
Urban poverty, 102
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 63 , 129
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 115
U.S. Bureau of the Census, 43 , 61 , 126
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 117
U.S. Department of Education, 148
U.S. Department of Energy, 117 , 126
U.S. Department of State, 158
U.S. Department of Transportation, 126
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 92 , 126
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 42-43 , 54 , 58 , 108 , 124-126 , 191
V
Vance-Owen plan. See Bosnia, partition of
Vertical integration, 3 , 30
Visualization, 141 .
See also Geographic visualization (GVis); Multidimensional visualization, dynamic
W
Warsaw Pact, splintering of. See Cold War, demise of
Water-budget algorithms, 131 .
See also Evapotranspiration
Watershed dynamics, 89-92 .
See also Floods
managing, 101 , 112 , 114
Water Resources, 112
White House Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force, 122
World Bank Conference on Overcoming Global Hunger, 135
World Wide Web, 43 , 160
Y
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, 123