Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context (eBook, PDF)

North and South
Redaktion: Nedovic-Budic, Zorica; Georgiadou, Yola; Crompvoets, Joep

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With contributions from international experts, this book presents cutting edge Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) research on information technology, systems, and infrastructures that is theoretically-based and empirically supported. It examines the complexities involved in the establishments of SDIs in the Northern and Southern hemispheres and use of SDIs in a variety of cultural, societal, and institutional contexts. The focus is on urban and regional levels where socio-economic and environmental sustainability is realized.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439828038
• Artikelnr.: 38455487

Autorenporträt

Joep Crompvoets is an associate professor at the Public Management Institute of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and lecturer at the Centre for Geo-Information of Wageningen University in The Netherlands. He holds two MSs and a Ph.D. from Wageningen University.

Inhaltsangabe

Institutions and Organizations: When Is Providing Spatial Information a
Public Task? A Search for Criteria. Institutionalization Does Not Occur by
Decree: Institutional Obstacles in Implementing a Land Administration
System in a Developing Country. Integrating Spatial Information and
Business Processes: The Role of Organizational Structures. GIS Database
Development and Exchange: Interaction Mechanisms and Motivations. Data and
Technology: SDI Reality in Uganda: Coordinating between Redundancy and
Efficiency. Social Network Analysis of the SDI in Flanders. Thinking in
Circles: How National Geo-Information Infrastructures Cannot Escape from
the Temptation of Technology. People and Practices: Enlisting SDI for Urban
Planning in India: Local Practices in the Case of Slum Declaration.
Considerations from the Development of a Local Spatial Data Infrastructure.
An Exploration of SDI and Volunteered Geographic Information in Africa.
Sense-Making and Summing Up: SDI in North and South-A Full Circle Yet?
Conclusion: Implications for Future Research and Practice-Toward Scientific
Pragmatism. Afterword. Index.