Planning and socioeconomic applications

Geotechnologies and the environment series, vol. 1:

This book includes a chapter 'Situating urban environmental risk: using GIScience to understand risk in a midwestern city' which uses a GIScience approach toward assessing and correlating the relationship between urban environmental risk, environmental amenities and socio-economics.

The book also 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 is written by planning practitioners as well as university based researchers. It provides scholars and professionals with a survey of the contemporary work in the field, and with insights into remaining questions, methodological debates, and technical complications of employing geotechnologies in the real world.