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Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Implications for Promoting Social and Economic Justice

Computers in Human Services, 1999
SUMMARY This article is a consideration of the implications for the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology in social work practice as a tool for improved visualization of social and economic inequalities. Along with a brief, general introduction to GIS, overviews are included of the historical uses of geographic mapping, as well as ...
Paige L. Tompkins, Linda H. Southward
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Natural Hazards

2013
Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS is a computer-based information system designed for capturing, storing, analyzing, managing, and displaying spatial data representing human and natural phenomena from the real world. It may include application to remote sensing, land surveying, mathematics, and geography. Natural Hazard.
TAROLLI, PAOLO, M. Cavalli
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The Geographic Information System (GIS) of Turin Municipality

2000
The essay bids a framing of the remarkable telematic services of the City of Torino. Core of the document is the description of the local Geographic Information System (GIS): the aim of the GIS on the Internet is to allow a shared use of data concerning land use and management, cartography, building rules, environment conditions.
Guido Bolatto   +3 more
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Geographic information systems (GIS) for microcomputers

ACM SIGUCCS Newsletter, 1989
At The University of Calgary, courses in Geographic Information Systems are offered in the departments of Geography and Surveying Engineering and the Faculty of Environmental Design. In this article. Roger Wheate describes how the development of the microcomputer as a standard has made this technology accessible to a wide body of users and provides ...
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Geographic Information System (GIS)

2008
Stewart B. Peck   +58 more
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Hungary

1996
Information technology can be considered as an engine of competitiveness, economic growth and employment. The existence of the national communication and information infrastructure is a prerequisite of any advanced applications. All the developments in this field have an increasing global context from one side and a personal character from the other ...
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