GIS and the Social Sciences: Theory and Applications
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 113878513X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Franklin is Associate Director of the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) initiative and Associate Professor (Research) of Population Studies at Brown University, USA.Andy Newing is a Lecturer in Retail Geography at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. Graham Clarke is Professor of Business Geography at the University of Leeds, UK.Rachel S. About the AuthorDimitris Ballas is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Aegean, Greece. . He has published widely in the fields of Social and Economic Geography, Regional Science and Geoinformatics in the Social Sciences. Andy contributes extensively to undergraduate and masters level GIS teaching and student supervision within the social sciences
It is supplemented with practical activities and datasets which are linked to the content of each chapter and provided on a companion website. GIS and the Social Sciences offers a uniquely social science approach on the theory and application of GIS with a range of modern examples. It will prove to be of great interest to geographers, as well as the broader social sciences, such as sociology, crime science, health, business and marketing.. This book serves as a useful guide to a social science approach to GIS techniques and applications. The book explores the use of GIS in crime, health, education, retail location, urban planning, transport, geodemographics, emergency planning and poverty/income inequalities. It explores how human geography can engage with a variety of important policy issues through linking together GIS and spatial analysis, and demonstrates the
Dimitris Ballas is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Aegean, Greece. He has published widely in the fields of Social and Economic Geography, Regional Science and Geoinformatics in the Social Sciences. . Franklin is Associate Director of the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)