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Studies in Applied Geography and Spatial Analysis
Addressing Real World Issues
Edited by Robert Stimson and Kingsley E. Haynes
This timely and fascinating book illustrates how applied geography can contribute in a multitude of ways to assist policy processes, evaluate public programs, enhance business decisions, and contribute to formulating solutions for community-level problems.
Monograph Book
- Published in print:
- 31 Oct 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781781007129
- eISBN:
- 9781781007969
- Pages:
- 392
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- Studies in Applied Geography and Spatial Analysis
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Applied geography: relevance and approaches
- Chapter 2: A geographic perspective on demographic evolution in Europe: the CEG participation in the ESPON 1.1.4 project
- Chapter 3: A national transport policy: the case of Pakistan
- Chapter 4: Spatial modelling, GIS and network analysis for improving the sustainability of transporting aggregates in the UK
- Chapter 5: SMILE: an applied spatial micro-simulation model for Ireland
- Chapter 6: Using GIS and spatial modelling to support school network planning in Estonia
- Chapter 7: Spatial optimization: expanding emergency services to address regional growth and development
- Chapter 8: Urban growth in the Brisbane–South East Queensland region and its implications for emergency services provision: a Geographic Information Systems-based approach
- Chapter 9: Geographical dimensions of federal investment in small business development
- Chapter 10: Geographical modelling, public policy and informing the ‘store wars’ sovereignty debate in Australia
- Chapter 11: Defending a territory: automobile dealership customer and site analysis
- Chapter 12: West Midlands (UK) regional planning (1999–2012), functioning economic geography and the E3I belt: coping with uncomfortable truths
- Chapter 13: Technopoles: governance and networking
- Chapter 14: Economics of space: estimating the economic significance of a NASA testing facility
- Chapter 15: Using input–output analysis and GIS to assess economic, fiscal and developmental impacts of toll roads in Dallas: a 40-year perspective
- Chapter 16: Helping community groups to address urban planning issues in a deprived gipsy neighbourhood: geographical experiences from Perpignan in a post-riot context
- Chapter 17: Designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating an urban community development programme in Portugal
- Chapter 18: A local master plan for biospheric conservation and development: concept, methodology and application
- Chapter 19: Assessing responses to National Weather Service warnings: the case of a tornado
- Chapter 20: Managing environmental hazards of outdoor falls among the elderly population of Hong Kong
- Chapter 21: Hydropower in Chilean Patagonia: evaluating socio-economic conditions for resettlement and/or compensation of rural inhabitants
- Index
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- Published:
- 31 October 2012
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- Pages:
- xv–xx (6 total)
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Social And Political Science 2012
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- Studies in Applied Geography and Spatial Analysis
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Applied geography: relevance and approaches
- Chapter 2: A geographic perspective on demographic evolution in Europe: the CEG participation in the ESPON 1.1.4 project
- Chapter 3: A national transport policy: the case of Pakistan
- Chapter 4: Spatial modelling, GIS and network analysis for improving the sustainability of transporting aggregates in the UK
- Chapter 5: SMILE: an applied spatial micro-simulation model for Ireland
- Chapter 6: Using GIS and spatial modelling to support school network planning in Estonia
- Chapter 7: Spatial optimization: expanding emergency services to address regional growth and development
- Chapter 8: Urban growth in the Brisbane–South East Queensland region and its implications for emergency services provision: a Geographic Information Systems-based approach
- Chapter 9: Geographical dimensions of federal investment in small business development
- Chapter 10: Geographical modelling, public policy and informing the ‘store wars’ sovereignty debate in Australia
- Chapter 11: Defending a territory: automobile dealership customer and site analysis
- Chapter 12: West Midlands (UK) regional planning (1999–2012), functioning economic geography and the E3I belt: coping with uncomfortable truths
- Chapter 13: Technopoles: governance and networking
- Chapter 14: Economics of space: estimating the economic significance of a NASA testing facility
- Chapter 15: Using input–output analysis and GIS to assess economic, fiscal and developmental impacts of toll roads in Dallas: a 40-year perspective
- Chapter 16: Helping community groups to address urban planning issues in a deprived gipsy neighbourhood: geographical experiences from Perpignan in a post-riot context
- Chapter 17: Designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating an urban community development programme in Portugal
- Chapter 18: A local master plan for biospheric conservation and development: concept, methodology and application
- Chapter 19: Assessing responses to National Weather Service warnings: the case of a tornado
- Chapter 20: Managing environmental hazards of outdoor falls among the elderly population of Hong Kong
- Chapter 21: Hydropower in Chilean Patagonia: evaluating socio-economic conditions for resettlement and/or compensation of rural inhabitants
- Index