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Summary
Summary
"The definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbook is lucid, integrative, comprehensive and, above all, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal process."- Paul Longley, University College London
"This is truly a handbook - a book you will want to keep on hand for frequent reference and to which GIS professors should direct students entering our field... Selection of a few of the chapters for individual attention is difficult because each one contributes meaningfully to the overall message of this volume. An important collection of articles that will set the tone for the next two decades of discourse and research about GIS and society." - Journal of Geographical AnalysisOver 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 multifaceted endeavour. 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 Geographical Information and Modern Life Alternative Representations of Geographic Information and Society Organizations and Institutions Participation and Community Issues Value, Fairness, and PrivacyAimed at academics, researchers, postgraduates, and GIS practitioners, this Handbook will be the basic reference for any inquiry applying GIS to societal issues.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors | p. viii |
Part I Introduction | p. 1 |
1 Geographic Information Systems and Society: A Twenty Year Research Perspective | p. 3 |
Part II GIS And Society Research | p. 23 |
Section 1 Foundations of GIS And Society Research | p. 25 |
2 Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science | p. 27 |
3 Geographic Ontologies and Society | p. 46 |
4 The Social Potential of GIS | p. 67 |
5 Critical GIS | p. 87 |
Section 2 GIS And Modern Life | p. 107 |
6 Connecting Geospatial Information to Society Through Cyberinfrastructure | p. 109 |
7 Environmental Sustainability: The Role of Geographic Information Science and Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Integration of People and Nature | p. 123 |
8 GIS and Population Health: An Overview | p. 138 |
9 Cogito Ergo Mobilis Sum: The Impact of Location-based Services on Our Mobile Lives | p. 159 |
Section 3 Alternative Representations in GIS and Society Research | p. 175 |
10 Human-scaled Visualizations and Society | p. 177 |
11 Indigenous Peoples' Issues and Indigenous Uses of GIS | p. 202 |
12 Spatial Modeling of Social Networks | p. 222 |
13 GIS Designs for Studying Human Activities in a Space-Time Context | p. 251 |
Section 4 GIS in Organisations and Institution | p. 269 |
4 Emerging Frameworks in the Information Age: The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Phenomenon | p. 271 |
5 Spatial Data Infrastructure for Cadastres: Foundations and Challenges | p. 287 |
6 A GIS-based Computer-supported Collaborative Work Flow System in Urban Planning | p. 304 |
7 GIS and Emergency Management | p. 321 |
Section 5 GIS in public participation and a Community Development | p. 345 |
18 Designing Public Participation Geographic Information Systems | p. 347 |
19 Online Public Participation GIS for Spatial Planning | p. 361 |
20 Participatory Approaches in GIS and Society Research: Foundations, Practices, and Future Directions | p. 381 |
21 PPGIS Implementation and the Transformation of US Planning Practice | p. 400 |
22 Politics and Power in Participation and GIS Use for Community Decision Making | p. 423 |
Section 6 Value, Fairness and Privacy in a GIS Context | p. 439 |
23 Geographic-Information Value Assessment | p. 441 |
24 Geovisualization of Spatial EquityEmily Talen | |
25 Natural Resource Conflicts, Their Management, and GIS ApplicationPeter A. Kwaku Kyem | |
26 Legal and Ethical Issues of Using Geospatial Technologies in SocietyDaniel Z. Sui | |
Part III Conclusion | |
27 GIS and Society Research: Reflections and Emerging ThemesHelen Couclelis and Timothy L. Nyerges and Robert McMaster | |
Index |