Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scholten, Henk J. (Editor), Velde, Rob. (Editor), Manen, Niels. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: GeoJournal Library, 96
• Subjects: Geography.; Geographical information systems.; Social sciences.; Human Geography.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Social Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2620-0

Globalisation has not led to the death of geography. Intensified relations between communities in different parts of the world have only highlighted the need for understanding and managing phenomena on a variety of geographic scales. From global warming to credit crunch, and from epidemics to terr...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Geo-ICT and the Role of Location within Science
• Location Across Disciplines: Reflections on the CSISS Experience
• Location Awareness 2020
• Visualising Landscapes: Do Pictures Represent Theory or Data
• Past in Place: The Role of Geo-ICT in Present-day Archaeology
• No Place in History - Geo-ICT and Historical Science
• Geo-ICT in demography
• The Adoption of Geo-ICT in Economics
• Spatial Planning and Geo-ICT
• Geo-ICT: Connecting Physical and Virtual Geographies
• The Role of Place and Time in the Epidemiology of Tropical Diseases
• Real Crimes on Virtual Maps
• Geo-ICT for Risk and Disaster Management
• Geo-ICT in Transportation Science
• Geographical Information Systems and Geography Teaching
• Synthesis: Geo-ICT and the Role of Location within Science.