"The definitive consultant to a know-how that succeeds or fails based upon our skill to house societal context and constructions. This guide is lucid, integrative, complete and, exceptionally, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal process."

- Paul Longley, college collage London

"This is actually a instruction manual - a booklet you'll want to keep it up hand for widespread reference and to which GIS professors may still direct scholars coming into our field... choice of a number of the chapters for person cognizance is tough simply because each contributes meaningfully to the general message of this quantity. an immense selection of articles that would set the tone for the following twenty years of discourse and examine approximately GIS and society."

- magazine of Geographical Analysis

Over the previous two decades examine at the evolving courting among GIS and Society has been increasing right into a big choice of topical parts, turning into within the technique an more and more difficult and multifaceted endeavour. The SAGE instruction manual of GIS and Society is a retrospective and potential evaluate of GIS and Society learn that offers an expansive and demanding evaluation of labor in that field.

Emphasizing the theoretical, methodological and great range inside GIS and Society learn, the ebook highlights the uniqueness and highbrow coherence of the topic as a box of analysis, whereas additionally interpreting its resonances with and among key subject matters, and between disciplines starting from geography and laptop technological know-how to sociology, anthropology, and the well-being and environmental sciences.

Comprising 27 chapters, frequently with a global concentration, the ebook is equipped into six sections:

• Foundations of Geographic info and Society
• Geographical details and smooth Life
• Alternative Representations of Geographic info and Society
• Organizations and Institutions
• Participation and neighborhood Issues
• Value, equity, and Privacy

Aimed at lecturers, researchers, postgraduates, and GIS practitioners, this Handbook often is the easy reference for any inquiry using GIS to societal issues.