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GIS for Health and the Environment: Development in the Asia-Pacific Region

Aimed at all types of public health practitioners and theorists, this book is a compilation of methodological and application developments in spatial epidemiological approaches for...More

Mapping Malaria Cases Using GIS: A Case Study of Mozambique

This research is based on understanding the challenges related to the design, development and implementation of a GIS tool for mapping malaria in developing countries and Mozambique in...More

GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management

Although many books have been published on the application of GIS in emergency management and disaster response, this is the first one to bring together a comprehensive discussion of the...More

Neighborhood Characteristics and Asthma Emergency Visits: Using Geographic Information Systems and Multilevel Analysis to Identify Underlying Community Factors

Asthma is not equally distributed across regions, populations, or communities. This original research examines the spatial distribution of Central Harlem residents visiting the local Emergency...More

Geography and Drug Addiction

The research in this book on the geographical context of drug addiction contributes to better understanding the etiology of addiction, its diffusion, its interaction with geographically variable...More

Food, Economics, and Health

Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a firm grounding in the concepts and issues across several disciplines including economics, nutrition,...More

Community-Based Participatory Research for Health: From Process to Outcomes

Minkler and Wallerstein have pulled together a fantastic set of contributions from the leading researchers in the field. In addition to a fine collection of case studies, this book puts the key...More

Environmental Epidemiology: Study Methods and Application

Air pollution, water contamination, persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, metals, and radiofrequencies are just some examples of environmental factors that have been linked to adverse...More

Spatial Epidemiological Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis

Compiled with method descriptions and step-by-step procedures, Spatial Epidemiological Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis equips readers with skills to prepare health-related data in the...More

The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach

The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach presents a fact-based, benefits-focused methodology aimed at ensuring the sustainability of GIS initiatives by effectively demonstrating the success...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.