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GIS-Based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Studies in the humanities and the social sciences can be enhanced through the use of geographic information systems (GIS). However, this computer-aided method of analysis is worthless unless researchers can devote the time necessary to learn what it is, what it can do, and how to use it.
Resulting from a six-year project entitled Spatial Information Science for the Humanities and Social Sciences (SIS for HSS), GIS-Based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences details the tools and processes for deploying GIS in economic and social analyses.
Through the use of this book, readers can understand how GIS technology can be utilized in advancing studies. This volume will also encourage professionals in humanities and the social sciences to employ new GIS-based methods in their own research.
Resulting from a six-year project entitled Spatial Information Science for the Humanities and Social Sciences (SIS for HSS), GIS-Based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences details the tools and processes for deploying GIS in economic and social analyses.
Through the use of this book, readers can understand how GIS technology can be utilized in advancing studies. This volume will also encourage professionals in humanities and the social sciences to employ new GIS-based methods in their own research.
344 pages, Hardcover
First published October 31, 2005
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July 31, 2019
A mishmash of articles revolving around a central theme of utilizing GIS to investigate sociological phenomena.
There is certainly a good spread of subjects, spaces, and temporalities. A secondary theme to glue the articles further together would have benefited this book. Additionally, many of the information sources and the software techniques have become obsolete over the past twelve years. Nonetheless, the explanations of GIS methodologies are thorough, engaging, and can act as primers for those new to the geographically-centered software.
Examples are primarily from the Japan context – not surprising given the list of authors and their academic resumes. As such, generalizability can be brought into question. Due to that, the authors are smart enough to draw focus away from their PICOTS elements, and focus on analytical/statistical methods, and how to automate them in a GIS framework. Ultimately, this book serves best as a quick reference guide for strong examples of GIS use under certain realms of academia; as a full read, cover to cover, it comes across as quite dry.
There is certainly a good spread of subjects, spaces, and temporalities. A secondary theme to glue the articles further together would have benefited this book. Additionally, many of the information sources and the software techniques have become obsolete over the past twelve years. Nonetheless, the explanations of GIS methodologies are thorough, engaging, and can act as primers for those new to the geographically-centered software.
Examples are primarily from the Japan context – not surprising given the list of authors and their academic resumes. As such, generalizability can be brought into question. Due to that, the authors are smart enough to draw focus away from their PICOTS elements, and focus on analytical/statistical methods, and how to automate them in a GIS framework. Ultimately, this book serves best as a quick reference guide for strong examples of GIS use under certain realms of academia; as a full read, cover to cover, it comes across as quite dry.
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