Socio-Economic Applications of Geographic Information Science

ISBN-13: 9780367578565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str.

David Kidner; Gary Higgs; Sean White

Opis

To date, no one volume in the Innovations in GIS series has addressed the use of up-to-date GIS-based techniques in a range of socio-economic applications. Socio-Economic Applications of Geographic Information Science begins with a short introductory chapter on the fundamental principles of GIS, followed by an examination of recent in

Spis treści

Introduction. Revisiting Fundamental Principles of GIS. GIS and Crime. GIS and Planning. GIS and Urban Applications. GIS and Rural Applications. GIS in Socio-economic Policy.

O autorze

David Kidner and Gary Higgs were Conference Chairs of GISRUK 2001 and work in the GIS Research Centre in the School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, UK. Current research interests focus on the use of GIS in a range of environmental and social applications. Sean White is a lecturer in GIS and spatial analysis in the Department of City and Regional Planning and has interests in the application of such techniques in planning.