The book aims to investigate methods and techniques for spatial statistical analysis suitable to model spatial information in support of decision systems. Over the last few years there has been a considerable interest in these tools and in the role they can play in spatial planning and environmental modelling.

One of the earliest and most famous definition of spatial planning was a geographical expression to the economic, social, cultural and ecological policies of society: borrowing from this point of view, this text shows how an interdisciplinary approach is an effective way to an...