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The Sage Handbook of GIS and Society
Contributor(s): Nyerges, Timothy (Editor), Couclelis, Helen (Editor), McMaster, Robert B. (Editor)
ISBN: 141294645X     ISBN-13: 9781412946452
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2011
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Annotation: The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society emphasizes the theoretical, methodological, and substantive diversity within GIS and society research. It examines the integrity and intellectual coherence of GIS and society as a field of study, while also looking at resonances with/between key components and other disciplines such as geography, computer science, sociology, cognitive science, criminology, anthropology, health sciences and much more.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Research
- Technology & Engineering | Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems
- Social Science | Human Geography
Dewey: 910.285
Physical Information: 1.36" H x 7.2" W x 9.79" (2.59 lbs) 576 pages
 
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Over the past twenty years research on the evolving relationship between GIS and Society has been expanding into a wide variety of topical areas, becoming in the process an increasingly challenging and multifaced endeavor. The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society is a retrospective and prospective overview of GIS and Society research that provides an expansive and critical assessment of work in that field.

Emphasizing the theoretical, methodological and substantive diversity within GIS and Society research, the book highlights the distinctiveness and intellectual coherence of the subject as a field of study, while also examining its resonances with and between key themes, and among disciplines ranging from geography and computer science to sociology, anthropology, and the health and environmental sciences.

Comprising 27 chapters, often with an international focus, the book is organized into six sections:

  • Foundations of Geographic Information and Society
  • Geographic Information and Modern Life
  • Alternative Representations of Geographic Information and Society
  • Organizations and Institutions
  • Participation and Community Issues
  • Value, Fairness, and Privacy

Contributor Bio(s): Nyerges, Timothy: - Timothy Nyerges is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington.Couclelis, Helen: - Helen Couclelis is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara in 1982, she spent several years as a professional planner and policy advisor in Greece. She has held visiting appointments at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Waterloo, the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Her research interests are in the areas of geographic information science, urban and regional modeling and planning, integrated urban and environmental modeling, planning support systems, and spatial cognition. She is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. She has co-edited A Ground for Common Search (with P. Gould and R.G. Golledge) and Geographic Information Research: Bridging the Atlantic (with M. Craglia). She has served as Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and as member of the executive committee of the NSF-funded Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS).McMaster, Robert B.: - Dr Robert McMaster teaches in the Geography department at the University of Minnesota, US.