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 applications for assessing economic and planning activities in peripheral regions including developing countries. The book examines how spatial clustering concepts, spatial models, and related visualization techniques (GIS) can be applied to the case of economic development in rural environments. It discusses methodological issues including data and analysis issues. It also examines the differential growth patterns of counties within city-systems of the Western United States from the date of county formation until the late 20th century, using an historical GIS and historical US Census data. The final chapter summarizes the collection and positions it within the context of the broader book series on geotechnologies. First book that focuses exclusively on human centered applications of GIS/RS including: - real world development applications of GIS; - land-use changeusing an integrated GIS/RS framework; - a medical geography application of emergency planning associated with urban crises; - assessment of urban growth and changes using geographically weighted regression in selected cities. INDICE: Introduction.- GIS and Economic Development.- Land-use Change in Indianapolis.- Assessing Urbanization Using GWR.- GIS and Eco-system Managementin an Urban Center.- Hyperspectral Applications in Urban Geography.- Monitoring Uneven Development in Japan.- Situating Urban Environmental Risk in a GIScience Framework.- Landscape Ecology and Urban Forest Planning.- Planning for Urban Medical Crises.- Challenges to Planning and Development Applications in Peripheral Regions.- Clusters and Rural Development: A Geospatial Approach.- Historical Development of City-Systems in the Western U.S.: From Core to Periphery.- Conclusion: Geotechnologies in Place and Environment.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-9641-9
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 260
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés