Brent Hall & Michael G. Leahy 
Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling 

Challenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become »second nature», Towards a Critical Theory of Nature offers a bold new …

This title was first published in 2002: While world-wide political, sociological and economic processes encourage the marginalization of peripheral areas, the general degradation of the ecosystem …

This text describes late-1990s understanding of map generalisation in the context of paper maps and GIS. Its particular value should be in helping to further automate and measure the process of map …

This text is the inaugural book in Taylor and Francis»s GISDATA series, and is derived from the specialist workshop convened under the auspices of the European Science Foundation»s GISDATA …

Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed …

Provides a survey of the approaches used and the problems encountered in the model of real geophysical …

Linked Data opens up structured data from databases to be searched and queried via the web, and a geographic element is increasingly being used to link to those data. This book helps you understand …

Youth are usually not (yet) decision makers in politics or in business corporations, but the sustainability of Arctic settlements depends on whether or not youth envision such places as offering oppo …

Drawing on the authors» more than six years of R&D in location-based information systems (LBIS) as well as their participation in defining the Java ME Location API 2.0, Location-Based Information …