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Author: R. Thomas (1991)

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina

Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, and recovery. Race plays out in survivors' ability to rebuild, obtain loans, and locate housing. Low-income and people of color disaster...More

Business Site Selection, Location and GIS

All organizations -- businesses, government agencies, and even individuals -- face location and relocation decisions; where to open a new store, where to build a new factory, where to locate a...More

The Atlas of the Real World

Advances in technology have made widespread and detailed data gathering easier, resulting in a deluge of statistics on subjects as diverse as literacy rates, military spending, overweight...More

Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS

All organizations businesses, government agencies, and even individuals face location and relocation decisions: where to open a new store, where to build a new factory, where to locate a new...More

Applied Demography in the 21st Century

Applied demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the 21st century. Databases, substantive issues and methodological approaches seldom...More

Unlocking the Census with GIS

Seeking to demystify the census and explaining the potential of GIS for understanding people, places, and local economies, this guide explains how GIS can significantly ease data management,...More

Modernization and Postmodernization

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It...More

The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And What to Do About It

A controversial argument that reduced fertility and global aging threaten world prosperity, jeopardize national economies, and will change our way of life for decades to come. Overpopulation has...More

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City

Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the U.S....More

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.