The SAGE handbook of GIS and society / edited by Timothy L. Nyerges, Helen Couclelis and Robert McMaster.

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Published: Los Angeles : Sage, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Introduction
  • Geographic information systems and society: a twenty year research perspective / Timothy L. Nyerges ; Robert McMaster ; Helen Coucletis
  • Part II GIS and society research
  • Section 1 Founations of GIS and society research
  • Concepts, principles, tools, and challenges in spatially integrated social science / Donald G. Janelle ; Michael F. Goodchild
  • Geographic ontologies and society / Marino kavouras ; Margarita Kokla
  • The social potential of GIS / Stacy Warren
  • Critical GIS / Sarah Elwood ; Nadine Schuurman ; Matthew W. Wilson
  • Section 2 GIS and modern life
  • Connecting geospatial information to society through cyber infrastructure / Marc P. Armstrong ; Timothy L. Nyerges ; Shaowen Wang ; Dawn Wright
  • Environmental Sustainability: the role of geographic information science and spatial data infrastructures in the integration of people and nature / Clodoven A. Davis, Jr. ; Frederico T. Fonseca ; Gilberto Camara
  • GIS and population health: an overview / Nadine Schuurman ; Nathaniel Bell
  • Cogito ergo mobilis sum: the impact of location-based services on our mobile lives / Martin Raubal
  • Section 3 Alternative representations in GIS and society research
  • Human-scaled visualizations and society / Dimitris Ballas ; Danny Dorling
  • Indigenous peoples' issues and indigenous uses of GIS / Melinda Laituri
  • Spatial modeling of social networks / Carter T. Butts ; Ryan M. Acton
  • GIS designs for studying human activities / Hongbo Yu ; Shih-Lung Shaw

  • Section 4 GIS in organisations and institutions
  • Emerging frameworks in the information age: the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) phenomenon / Ian Masser
  • Spatial data infrastructure for cadastres: foundations and challenges / Francis Harvey
  • A GIS-based computer-supported collaborative work flow system in urban planning / Anthony G. O. Yeh ; Kenneth S. S. Tang
  • GIS and emergency management / Christopher T. Emrich ; Susan L. Cutter ; Paul J. Weschler
  • Section 5 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: foundations, practices, and future directions / Sarah Elwood
  • 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 6 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 III Conclusion
  • GIS and society research: reflections and emerging themes / Helen Couclelis ; Timothy L. Nyerges ; Robert McMaster.