Planning and Socioeconomic Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Geotechnologies in Place and the Environment

   • Jay D. Gatrell, Ryan R. Jensen

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3. GIS and Economic Development

   • Neil Reid, Michael C. Carroll, Bruce W. Smith, Joseph P. Frizado

   Pages 5-28

4. Identifying Urban Neighborhoods for Tree Canopy Restoration Through Community Participation

   • Jeffrey S. Wilson, Greg H. Lindsey

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5. The Spatially Varying Relationship Between Local Land-Use Policies and Urban Growth: A GeographicallyWeighted Regression Analysis

   • Robert Hanham, Richard J. Hoch, J. Scott Spiker

   Pages 43-56

6. GIS, Ecosystems and Urban Planning in Auckland, New Zealand: Technology, Processes and People

   • Fraser Morgan, Eric W. LaFary

   Pages 57-78

7. Hyperspectral Applications in Urban Geography

   • Vijay Lulla

   Pages 79-86

8. GIS and Spatio-temporal Trends in Inequality: Tracking Profitability According to Firm Size in Japanese Manufacturing, 1985–2006

   • Shawn Banasick

   Pages 87-108

9. Situating Urban Environmental Risk: Using GIScience to Understand Risk in a Midwestern City

   • Trevor Fuller, Jay D. Gatrell

   Pages 109-124

10. GIS and Challenges to Planning and Development Applications in Peripheral Regions

    • Rajiv Thakur, Madhuri Sharma

    Pages 125-138

11. Geospatial Technologies for Surveillance of Heat Related Health Disasters

    • Daniel P. Johnson

    Pages 139-154

12. Spatial Analysis, Policy, Planning, and~Alternative Energy Production

    • James Pace, Jay D. Gatrell

    Pages 155-181

13. Environmental and Social Influences on Historical County Creation in the United States

    • Karinne Rancie, Samuel M. Otterstrom, Jeffrey M. Sanders, Fredric J. Donaldson

    Pages 183-204

14. Local Government Use of GIS in Comprehensive Planning

    • Mark W. Patterson, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen

    Pages 205-220

15. Back Matter

    Pages 221-221

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This chapter has shown a small sample of GIS applications in economic devel- ment. GIS is a powerful tool for data analysis and presentation, and the economic development rami cations are truly signi cant. The speed at which data and stra- gies can be coordinated is clearly changing the way economic developers approach their job. There are a number of important trends that are likely to result in GIS becoming more pervasive in the economic development community. These include declining costs of GIS software, increased computing power, and the growth of Web-based GIS applications. There also has been increase in GIS skills among economic development professionals. References Bastian, L. (2002). Getting the best from the web. Area Development Site and Facility Planning, March 1–7. Accessed 5 September 2008. Batheldt, H. (2005). Geographies of production: growth regimes in spatial perspective (II) – kno- edge creation and growth in clusters. Progress in Human Geography, 29(2), 204–216. Bathelt,H.,Malmberg,A.,Maskell,P.(2004). Clustersandknowledge: localbuzz,globalpipelines and the process of knowledge creation. Progress in Human Geography, 28(1), 31–56. Bernthal, M., Regan, T. (2004). The economic impact of a NASCAR racetrack on a rural com- nity and region. Sports Marketing Quarterly, 13(1), 26–34. Blackwell, M., Cobb, S. Weinbert, D. (2002). The economic impact of educational institutions: Issues and methodology. Economic Development Quarterly, 16(1), 88–95. Blair, J. (1995). Local Economic Development, Analysis and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Economic Development
• Environmental Risk
• GIS
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Land use
• Landscape Ecology
• Planning
• Urban Geography
• Urbanization
• cluster
• development
• ecosystem
• geoinformatics
• geospatial

• School of Graduate Studies and Department of Geography Geology, & Anthropology, Terre Haute, USA

  Jay D. Gatrell

• Brigham Young University Department of Geography, Provo, USA

  Ryan R. Jensen

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