The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society–Edited by Timothy Nyerges, Helen Couclelis and Robert McMaster (Book Review)
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Li, Tiebei
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2012
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Since the early 1990s, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has emerged as a social‐spatial technology and been widely adopted by government, business, and other organisations to address a variety of complex natural, social, and infrastructure issues. A burgeoning literature has explored GIS technologies and their application to a range of social problems. However, limited thought has been given to the challenges and emerging societal issues related to the use of GIS and how the development of GIS is influenced by various and ever‐changing social and structural conditions. Such issues suggest the GIS research agenda should ...
View more >Since the early 1990s, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has emerged as a social‐spatial technology and been widely adopted by government, business, and other organisations to address a variety of complex natural, social, and infrastructure issues. A burgeoning literature has explored GIS technologies and their application to a range of social problems. However, limited thought has been given to the challenges and emerging societal issues related to the use of GIS and how the development of GIS is influenced by various and ever‐changing social and structural conditions. Such issues suggest the GIS research agenda should be broadened to incorporate questions of societal and philosophical implications and the potential social embeddedness of GIS development. This book makes a fine contribution to this emergent body of work.
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View more >Since the early 1990s, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has emerged as a social‐spatial technology and been widely adopted by government, business, and other organisations to address a variety of complex natural, social, and infrastructure issues. A burgeoning literature has explored GIS technologies and their application to a range of social problems. However, limited thought has been given to the challenges and emerging societal issues related to the use of GIS and how the development of GIS is influenced by various and ever‐changing social and structural conditions. Such issues suggest the GIS research agenda should be broadened to incorporate questions of societal and philosophical implications and the potential social embeddedness of GIS development. This book makes a fine contribution to this emergent body of work.
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Journal Title
Geographical Research
Volume
50
Issue
4
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© 2012 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: PUBTITLE, Geographical Research, Vol. 50, Iss. 4, Nov. 2012, Pages 436-437, which has been published in final form at 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2011.00729.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Information systems philosophy, research methods and theory