The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society
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The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society

  1. 576 pages
  2. English
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The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society

About this book

"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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Part I Introduction
  9. 1 Geographic Information Systems and Society: A Twenty Year Research Perspective
  10. Part II GIS and Society Research
  11. Section 1 Foundations of GIS and Society Research
  12. 2 Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science
  13. 3 Geographic Ontologies and Society
  14. 4 The Social Potential of GIS
  15. 5 Critical GIS
  16. Section 2 GIS and Modern Life
  17. 6 Connecting Geospatial Information to Society Through Cyberinfrastructure
  18. 7 Environmental Sustainability: The Role of Geographic Information Science and Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Integration of People and Nature
  19. 8 GIS and Population Health: An Overview
  20. 9 Cogito Ergo Mobilis Sum: The Impact of Location-Based Services on Our Mobile Lives
  21. Section 3 Alternative Representations in GIS and Society Research
  22. 10 Human-Scaled Visualizations and Society
  23. 11 Indigenous Peoples' Issues and Indigenous Uses of GIS
  24. 12 Spatial Modeling of Social Networks
  25. 13 GIS Designs for Studying Human Activities in a Space–Time Context
  26. Section 4 GIS in Organisations and Institutions
  27. 14 Emerging Frameworks in the Information Age: The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Phenomenon
  28. 15 Spatial Data Infrastructure for Cadastres: Foundations and Challenges
  29. 16 A GIS-based Computer-supported Collaborative Work Flow System in Urban Planning
  30. 17 GIS and Emergency Management
  31. Section 5 GIS in Public Participation and Community Development
  32. 18 Designing Public Participation Geographic Information Systems
  33. 19 Online Public Participation GIS for Spatial Planning
  34. 20 Participatory Approaches in GIS and Society Research: Foundations, Practices, and Future Directions
  35. 21 PPGIS Implementation and the Transformation of US Planning Practice
  36. 22 Politics and Power in Participation and GIS Use for Community Decision Making
  37. Section 6 Value, Fairness and Privacy in a GIS Context
  38. 23 Geographic Information Value Assessment
  39. 24 Geovisualization of Spatial Equity
  40. 25 Natural Resource Conflicts, their Management, and GIS Applications
  41. 26 Legal and Ethical Issues of Using Geospatial Technologies in Society
  42. Part III Conclusion
  43. 27 GIS and Society Research: Reflections and Emerging Themes
  44. Index