Timothy Nyerges & Helen Couclelis 
The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society [EPUB ebook] 

‘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 Analysis



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 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 Privacy

Aimed at academics, researchers, postgraduates, and GIS practitioners, this Handbook will be the basic reference for any inquiry applying GIS to societal issues.

Содержание

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Geographic Information Systems and Society — Timothy L. Nyerges, Robert Mc Master, and Helen Couclelis

A Twenty Year Research Perspective

PART TWO: GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH

SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH

Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science — Donald G. Janelle and Michael F. Goodchild

Geographic Ontologies and Society — Marinos Kavouras and Margarita Kokla

The Social Potential of GIS — Stacy Warren

Critical GIS — Sarah Elwood, Nadine Schuurman, and Matthew W. Wilson

SECTION TWO: GIS AND MODERN LIFE 107

Connecting Geospatial Information to Society Through Cyberinfrastructure — Marc P. Armstrong, Timothy L. Nyerges, Shaowen Wang, and Dawn Wright

Environmental Sustainability — Clodoveu A. Davis, Jr., Frederico T. Fonseca, and Gilberto Camara

The Role of Geographic Information Science and Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Integration of People and Nature

GIS and Population Health — Nadine Schuurman and Nathaniel Bell

An Overview

Cogito Ergo Mobilis Sum — Martin Raubal

The Impact of Location-based Services on Our Mobile Lives

SECTION THREE: ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS IN GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH

Human-scaled Visualizations and Society — Dimitris Ballas and Danny Dorling

Indigenous Peoples′ Issues and Indigenous Uses of GIS — Melinda Laituri

Spatial Modeling of Social Networks — Carter T. Butts and Ryan M. Acton

GIS Designs for Studying Human Activities in a Space-Time Context — Hongbo Yu and Shih-Lung Shaw

SECTION FOUR: GIS IN ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

Emerging Frameworks in the Information Age — Ian Masser

The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Phenomenon

Spatial Data Infrastructure for Cadastres — Francis Harvey

Foundations and Challenges

A GIS-based Computer-supported Collaborative Work Flow System in Urban Planning — Anthony G.O. Yeh and Kenneth S.S. Tang

GIS and Emergency Management — Christopher T. Emrich, Susan L. Cutter and Paul J. Weschler

SECTION FIVE: GIS IN PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Designing Public Participation Geographic Information Systems — Piotr Jankowski

Online Public Participation GIS for Spatial Planning — Richard Kingston

Participatory Approaches in GIS and Society Research — Sarah Elwood

Foundations, Practices, and Future Directions

PPGIS Implementation and the Transformation of US Planning Practice — Laxmi Ramasubramanian

Politics and Power in Participation and GIS Use for Community Decision Making — Rina Ghose

SECTION SIX: VALUE, FAIRNESS AND PRIVACY IN A GIS CONTEXT

Geographic Information Value Assessment — Roger Longhorn

Geovisualization of Spatial Equity — Emily Talen

Natural Resource Conflicts, Their Management, and GIS Applications — Peter A. Kwaku Kyem

Legal and Ethical Issues of Using Geospatial Technologies in Society — Daniel Z. Sui

PART THREE: CONCLUSION

GIS and Society Research — Helen Couclelis, Timothy L. Nyerges, and Robert Mc Master

Reflections and Emerging Themes

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Dr Robert Mc Master teaches in the Geography department at the University of Minnesota, US.