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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 multifaced endeavor. 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 • Geographic Information and Modern Life • Alternative Representations of Geographic Information and Society • Organizations and Institutions • Participation and Community Issues • Value, Fairness, and Privacy
Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science
Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science
Introduction
The historical legacies of using maps and spatial reasoning in the social sciences date back more than two centuries. However, early examples represent piecemeal applications by comparatively few scholars who saw that spatial context offered important clues to understanding human behavior and to resolving societal problems. A more widespread application of spatial perspectives in the social sciences has emerged in the past two decades, with the result that place, regional context, and spatial concepts are now increasingly seen as important contributors to social science theories and models and to empirical analyses about human processes and interactions. The expanded focus on spatial ...
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