Publisher's Synopsis
This guide enables students of human geography to take a critical look at the set of practices, hardware and software that are together described as GIS.
- A guide to GIS for students of human geography.
- Outlines the distinct approaches to inquiry employed in GIS and illustrates their relevance for human geographers.
- Traces the history of GIS and human geography from 1970 to the present.
- Illustrates the challenges of data collection, classification in the context of multiple stakeholders and epistemological approaches.
- Tracks the use of GIS in applied contexts through the stages of problem definition, data acquisition and classification, choice of software, spatial analysis and graphic output.
- Includes an inventory of tools and information related to GIS, including web-based resources.
- Supported by a website, www.blackwellpublishing.com/schuurman.
