Planning and Socioeconomic Applications

The book focuses on socio-demographics and the use of these data to support strategic planning initiatives associated with the spatial expansion of urban areas and economic development. It contains a conceptual discussion of the challenges, both methodological and practical, implementing GIS applica...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gatrell, Jay D. (Editor), Jensen, Ryan R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
Series:Geotechnologies and the Environment ; 1
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9642-6
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Geotechnologies in Place and the Environment
  • 2. GIS and Economic Development
  • 3. Identifying Urban Neighborhoods for Tree Canopy Restoration through Community Participation
  • 4. The Spatially Varying Relationship Between Local Land-Use Policies and Urban Growth: A Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis
  • 5. GIS, ecosystems and urban planning in Auckland, New Zealand: Technology, processes and people
  • 6. Hyperspectral applications in urban geography
  • 7. GIS and Spatio-temporal Trends in Inequality: Tracking Profitability According to Firm Size in Japanese Manufacturing, 1985-2006
  • 8. Situating urban environmental risk: Using GIScience to understand risk in a Midwestern city
  • 9. GIS and Challenges to Planning and Development Applications in Peripheral Regions
  • 10. Geospatial Technologies for Surveillance of Heat Related Health Disasters
  • 11. Spatial Analysis, Policy, Planning, and Alternative Energy Production
  • 12. Environmental and Social Influences on Historical County Creation in the United States
  • 13. Local Government Use of GIS in Comprehensive Planning.