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  • 1
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    Route Choice: Wayfinding in Transport Networks (1990)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400906334
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (328p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Business and Economics
    Series Statement: Studies in Operational Regional Science 9
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    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Human Geography
    Abstract: 1. Wayfinding: Choice and Search -- 1.1 Personal Experience or Alternative Introduction -- 1.2 Scope -- 1.3 Relevance of Route Choice Behavior Research -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- 2. Route Choice Behavior Theory -- 2.1 Basic Definitions -- 2.2 Basic Assumptions -- 2.3 Spatial Behavior -- 2.4 Travel Behavior -- 2.5 Route Choice Behavior -- 3. Elements of Route Choice Behavior -- 3.1 Learning Networks -- 3.2 Choice Set Formation -- 3.3 Route Choice Factors -- 3.4 Perception of Route Attributes -- 3.5 Evaluation of Routes and Choice Decision -- 3.6 Route Choice Dynamics -- 3.7 Route Choice in a Network Equilibrium Perspective -- 3.8 The Role of Experience -- 4. Observations of Route Choice Behavior -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Observation Methods -- 4.3 Observations of Individual Behavior -- 4.4 Observations of Choice Situations -- 4.5 Actual Route Paths -- 5. Route Choice Models -- 5.1 Modeling Approaches -- 5.2 Choice Set Generation Models -- 5.3 Random Utility Models -- 5.4 Production Rule Systems -- 6. Applications -- 6.1 Review of Practice and Potential -- 6.2 Estimation of Traffic Volumes -- 6.3 Traffic Assignment -- 6.4 Traffic Management Schemes -- 6.5 Design of Networks and Facilities -- 6.6 Route Guidance Systems -- 7. Future Prospects -- 7.1 Congestion — How Much Can We Take? -- 7.2 Route Choice and Congestion Relief -- Author Index -- Credits.
    Abstract: With the ever increasing number of opportunities, in every aspect of modem life, making choices becomes part of our daily routine. It is thus only natural that social scientists have started to study human choice behavior. Early efforts focused on modeling aggregate choice patterns of home buyers, shoppers, travelers, and others. Later studies, aiming to achieve more realistic results, have concentrated on simula­ ting disaggregate behavior. The most recent approach in choice research is the so-called Discrete Choice Modeling. It is a front-line area mainly in contemporary transportation, geography, and behavioral research. It focuses on individuals' decision-making processes regarding the choice of destinations, modes, departure times, and routes. Considerable research has been done on identifying and quantify­ ing the general rules governing the individuals' choice behavior, but to the best of our knowledge there is no single book that solely deals with route choice. The study of travelers' route choice in networks is primarily oriented towards gaining insight into their spatial choice behavior. How do people choose routes in a network, what do they know, what do they look for, which road characteristics playa role? On the basis of this information it is possible to design quantitative models aimed at predicting the use of routes dependent on the characteristics of the routes, those of the surrounding environment, and those of the travelers. In this way, traffic flows in the network can be calculated and the network performance can be evaluated.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0633-4
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    Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400906211
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 231 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 15
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 15
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Environmental management ; Operations research. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: Uncertainty and quality are crucial aspects of knowledge for science related to policy. Hitherto the skills of managing them have been neglected, partly because of the metaphysical prejudices that mathematical language is inherently precise and scientific assertions necessarily correct. In this age of global environmental problems, there is an urgent need for a method of expressing judgements of uncertainty and quality that is convenient, robust and nuanced. The notational system NUSAP (Numeral, Unit, Spread, Assessment, Pedigree) has been created to fill this need. In this book NUSAP is explained and applied to several examples from the environmental sciences. The authors are now making further extensions of NUSAP, including an algorithm for the propagation of quality-grades through models used in risk and safety studies. They are also developing the concept of `Post-normal Science', in which quality assurance of information requires the participation of `extended peer-communities' lying outside the traditional expertise
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0621-1
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  • 3
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    Georg Simmel and Contemporary Sociology (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400904590
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (400p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 119
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 119
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Philosophy ; History ; Sociology. ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: One: Simmel as a Puzzling Figure -- Two: Simmel as a Puzzling Figure for Contemporary Sociology -- On the Current Rediscovery of Georg Simmel’s Sociology — A European Point of View -- Georg Simmel’s Concept of Society -- Georg Simmel and the Study of Modernity -- The World as Human Construction -- Four Concepts of Social Science at Berlin University: Dilthey, Lazarus, Schmoller and Simmel -- Simmel’s Contribution to Parsons’ Action Theory and its Fate -- Simmel on Memory -- Social Differentiation and Modernity: On Simmel’s Macrosociology -- Simmel’s Sociology in Relation to Schopenhauer’s Philosophy -- Simmel on the Ratio of Subjective Values to Objective Cultural Possibilities -- On the Concept of “Erleben” in Georg Simmers Sociology -- Georg Simmel as an Analyst of Autonomous Dynamics: The Merry-Go-Round of Fashion -- Simmel, Individuality, and Fundamental Change -- Georg Simmel’s Theory of Culture -- The Groundwork of Simmel’s New “Storey” Beneath Historical Materialism -- Georg Simmel and the Cultural Dilemma of Women -- Dimensions of Conflict: Georg Simmel on Modern Life -- Simmel’s Influence on Lukács’s Conception of the Sociology of Art -- Simmel’s Metaphysics -- INDEX OF NAMES.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0459-0
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    Trends in Dermatoglyphic Research (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400921375
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (332p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Human Biology 1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Evolution (Biology) ; Anthropology
    Abstract: Historical Notes on Dermatoglyphics: From Purkinje to Cummins -- Dermatoglyphics as Genetic Markers -- Dermatoglyphic Recording and Scoring Techniques -- Genetic and Developmental Dermatoglyphics -- Prenatal Communalities in Epidermal Ridge Development -- Variability and Asymmetry in Main Line Index among 20 Dhangar Castes of Maharashtra, India -- Developmental Aspects of Human Palmar, Plantar, and Digital Flexion Creases -- Dermatoglyphics and the Geschwind Hypothesis. I. Theoretical Background and Palmar Results of Dyslexia -- Dermatoglyphics and the Geschwind Hypothesis. II. Digital Results of Dyslexia and Developmental Implications -- Effect of Environmental Pollutants on Dermatoglyphics Patterns -- Clinical Dermatoglyphics -- Dermatoglyphics of Three Alzheimer Families -- Dermatoglyphics in Hungarian Schizophrenic Patients -- Dermatoglyphic Variations in Achondroplasia -- Dermatoglyphics in Syndromes with Hand Malformations -- Dermatoglyphics in the Pathology of Breast Cancer and Cervix Carcinoma -- Dermatoglyphics in Marfan Syndrome -- Anthropological Dermatoglyphics -- Dermatoglyphics and Population Distance -- Dermatoglyphics in the Eastern Adriatic — Possibilities and Dilemmas in the Study of Population Structure -- Dermatoglyphics of Eastern Slavs -- Dermatoglyphics of the Finno-Ugrians of Eurasia -- The Dermatoglyphics of Egyptian Nubians -- Dermatoglyphics of Turkic Peoples of the U.S.S.R. -- Dermatoglyphics of Native Polynesians in the Cook Islands, and Their Biological Positioning Among South Pacific Populations -- Dermatoglyphics of the Isolated Kapingamarangese of Micronesia -- Pattern Intensities and Pattern Sizes on Palm and Sole of Chimpanzee: Description and Comparison with Humans.
    Abstract: The preparation of a volume of worldwide research contributions can be a time­ consuming task which is frequently more difficult than many other types of book. This particular venture was made easier by the assistance of many people. Therefore, we wish to acknowledge: the suggestions, academic support and direction of Dr. Kenneth M. Weiss, our American editor; the assistance of the staff of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa, particularly the generous and congenial efforts of Ms. Rosemarie Skaine and Mrs. Heidi Anderegg whose computer and deciphering skills may be legendary; the kind responses to our long-distance questions from Mr. Martin Scrivener of Kluwer Publications are much appreciated; finally, the efforts of Dr. Paul T. Baker and Dr. Ralph M. Garruto for their help in rounding out the final contents. NMD CCP FOREWORD Among the many techniques developed by nineteenth century anatomists for the study of human morphological structures the analysis of dermatoglyphics has proven to be one of the most useful and durable. The series of reports presented herein reflect the dynamism of the topic. Such analyses provide a valuable tool for measuring the genetic relatedness of human populations and an inexpensive technique for alerting us to the degree of genetic involvement in the causes of many diseases.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2137-5
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  • 5
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    Worlds Apart : Collective Action in Simulated Agrarian and Industrial Societies (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400919624
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (208p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 14
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 14
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology. ; Political science.
    Abstract: One — Gamed Simulations for Social Scientists -- Gaming in the College Classroom -- Scientific Gaming -- Gamed Simulation -- Social Science Research with Gamed Simulations -- Games Versus Real Life -- The Industrial Revolution -- Starpower -- Research Design -- Stratification in Agrarian and Industrial Society Contrasted -- Findings About Conflict and Change -- What is a Gamed Simulation? -- Simulation -- Gamed Simulations -- two — History of Gamed Simulation in Social Science Research -- Inter-Nation Simulation (INS) -- Simsoc (Simulated Society) -- Starpower -- High School -- Generation Gap -- The Commons Game -- Conclusion -- three — Theory -- Social Structure -- Open and Closed Social Systems -- Implications of Social Structure for Empirical Predictions Concerning Play of Starpower -- Status Characteristics -- The Intergroup Association Block -- The Formation of Interests and Perceptions -- Group Size and the Organization of Interest Groups -- The Second Round -- Rule Change Portion of the Game and Class Conflict -- Mobilization -- Group Interaction -- Rule Changes -- Elite Theory -- Law -- Repression -- Collective Action -- The Results of Repression and Collective Action -- Four — History and Rules of Starpower -- History -- How Starpower is Played -- Transcript of a Play of Starpower -- Five — Operationalization of Concepts of the Theory Model -- The Social Structural Block: Manipulated Variables -- Variables of the Status Characteristics Block -- Round 2 -- The Rule Change Portion of the Game -- Round 3 -- Six — Hypotheses to be Tested in the Starpower Simulation -- Components of the Theoretical Model -- Round 2 -- The End of Round 2 -- The Rule Change Portion of the Game -- Round 3 -- Summary of the Hypotheses -- Seven — Research Procedures -- The Classroom Groups -- Player Characteristics -- Size of Societies -- Size of Social Classes -- Late Arriving Players -- Starpower and the Sociology and Social Anthropology Curriculum -- Game Administration -- Identification Tags -- Player’s Logs -- Timing of Rounds -- Standardized Bonus Rounds -- Round 3 -- Rule Changes -- Collective Action -- Debriefing -- Summary -- Eight — Qualitative Analysis of Starpower -- The Day We Played Starpower: Observations by a Fictitious Player -- Group Bonus -- Motility -- Rule Changes -- Collective Action -- Comments by Players -- Summary of the Observations -- Nine — Findings from the Quantitative Analysis of Collective Action in Starpower -- Round 1 -- Round 2 -- Transition Period at the end of Round 2 -- Rule Changes -- Verbal Interactions -- Collective Action -- Round 3 -- Summary of Data Analysis -- Afterword -- Appendix a — Sample Scoresheet -- References.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1962-4
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    Communicating Risks to the Public : International Perspectives (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400919525
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (492p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Technology, Risk, and Society, An International Series in Risk Analysis 4
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Environmental sciences ; Environmental management ; Social sciences
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1952-5
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    Selforganization : Portrait of a Scientific Revolution (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789401729758
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 271 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences, A Yearbook 14
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 14
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Genetic epistemology ; Systems theory ; Sociology. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; System theory. ; Control theory.
    Abstract: Selforganization — the Convergence of Ideas. An Introduction -- I. Epistemological Foundations -- Science and Daily Life: The Ontology of Scientific Explanations -- Self-Organization, Emergent Properties and the Unity of the World -- On a Fundamental Paradigm Shift in the Natural Sciences -- The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown -- II. Selfreference and Selfregulation in Social Systems -- How the Law Thinks: Toward a Constructivist Epistemology of Law -- Self-Regulation in Social Systems -- Systemic Therapy — A Particular Drift Between Systems Theory and Psychotherapy -- Literary Systems as Self-organizing Systems -- Chekhov’s Letter: Linguistic System and its Discontents -- III. The Appearance of Structure -- Concepts of Self-Organization in the 19th Century -- Cognitive Systems as Self-Organizing Systems -- IV. The Selforganization of Science -- Self-Organization and Autopoiesis in the Development of Modern Science -- The Selforganization of Science — Outline of a Theoretical Model -- Actor-Networks versus Science as Self-Organizing System: A Comperative View of two Constructivist Approaches -- Self-Organization and New Social Movements -- Person Index.
    Abstract: may be complex without being able to be replaced by something »still more simple«. This became evident with the help of computer models of deterministic-recursive systems in which simple mathematical equation systems provide an extremely complex behavior. (2) Irregularity of nature is not treated as an anomaly but becomes the focus of research and thus is declared to be normal. One looks for regularity within irregularity. Non-equilibrium processes are recognized as the source of order and the search for equilibrium is replaced by the search for the dynamics of processes. (3) The classical system-environment model, according to which the adaptation of a system to its environment is controlled externally and according to which the adaptation of the system occurs in the course of a learning process, is replaced by a model of systemic closure. This closure is operational in so far as the effects produced by the system are the causes for the maintenance of systemic organization. If there is sufficient complexity, the systems perform internal self-observation and exert self-control (»Cognition« as understood by Maturana as self-perception and self-limitation, e. g. , that of a cell vis-a. -vis its environment). 22 But any information a system provides on its environment is a system-internal construct. The »reference to the other« is merely a special case of »self-reference«. The social sciences frequently have suffered from the careless way in which scientific ideas and models have been transferred.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2975-8
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    Causality in Sociological Research (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400904958
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (192p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 212
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Conditioning of Events versus Causal Conditioning -- 1. Kinds of events and kinds of conditions -- 2. Some properties of the relation of conditioning: symmetry and transitivity -- 3. Temporal relations among events. The broadest interpretation of causal conditioning -- 4. A narrower interpretation of causal conditioning: events as changes -- 5. Other narrower approaches to causal determination -- 6. Relations among events, among features and among variables -- 7. Kinds of methods of establishing causal relations -- 8. Conclusions -- II. The Simplest Case of Causal Analysis -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Statistical relationship -- 3. Dichotomous systems -- 4. Interactions among variables -- 5. Causal relationship as a relationship which is not spurious -- 6. Probabilistic definition of cause -- 7. Cause as a necessary component of a sufficient condition -- 8. Conclusions -- III. The Causal Interpretation of Relationships in Non-experimental Single Studies -- 1. The occurrence and non-occurrence of causal relationships -- 2. Intensity of causal relationships -- IV. Verification of Statements on Causal Relationships in Diachronic Research -- 1. Kinds of processes and methods of studying changes -- 2. The panel method and the verification of statements on causal relationships -- V. Verification of Statements on Causal Relationships in Experimental Research -- 1. Classical experiment -- 2. Experiment with four groups and with the possibility of controlling the effect of the first study -- 3. Incomplete schemata of experiments -- 4. Enriched schemata of experiments -- 5. Conclusions -- VI. Causal Analyses and Theoretical Analyses -- 1. Causal analyses as theories -- 2. Causal “models” -- 3. The concept of cause -- 4. The problem of determinism -- VII. Human Beings and Collectivities. The Problem of the “Level of Analysis” in Sociology -- 1. Three meanings of membership in a collectivity -- 2. Social wholes -- 3. Classification of variables -- 4. Contextual properties -- 5. Ecological correlation -- 6. Reductionism -- Concluding Remarks: Problems Raised and Results Obtained -- Notes -- Bibliographical Postscript -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: The general treatment of problems connected with the causal conditioning of phenomena has traditionally been the domain of philosophy, but when one examines the relationships taking place in the various fields, the study of such conditionings belongs to the empirical sciences. Sociology is no exception in that respect. In that discipline we note a certain paradox. Many problems connected with the causal conditioning of phenomena have been raised in sociology in relatively recent times, and that process marked its empirical or even so-called empiricist trend. That trend, labelled positivist, seems in this case to be in contradiction with a certain type of positivism. Those authors who describe positivism usually include the Humean tradition in its genealogy and, remembering Hume's criticism of the concept of cause, speak about positivism as about a trend which is inclined to treat lightly the study of causes and confines itself to the statements on co-occurrence of phenomena.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0495-8
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    The Aymara : Strategies in Human Adaptation to a Rigorous Environment (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400921412
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (276p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Human Biology 2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Human genetics ; Anthropology ; Medical genetics.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction: The place and the study -- 2: Flora and fauna -- 3: Trace metals -- 4: The Aymará: An outline of their pre and post-Columbian history -- 5: Paleopathology -- 6: Nutritional characteristics of the Aymará of northern Chile -- 7: The Chilean Aymará and their reproductive patterns -- 8: Ecologic determinants of the health of Aymará children -- 9: Disease and disability among the Aymará -- 10: Heterozygosity and physical growth in an Andean population -- 11: Hearing and hypoxia among the Aymará -- 12: Altitude and cardiopulmonary relationships -- 13: Oral characteristics of the Aymará -- 14: Intratribal genetic differentiation as assessed through electrophoresis -- 15: Ethnogenesis and affinities to other South American aboriginal populations -- 16: Epilogue -- References -- Multinational Andean Genetic and Health Program Publications.
    Abstract: South America's Andean highlands have seen the rise and decline of several impressive, indigenous civilizations. Separated somewhat in time and place, each developed its distinctive socio-cultural accouterments but all shared a need to adjust to the individual, societal and environmental limitations imposed by life at high altitude. Partial oxygen pressure, temperature and humidity fall systematically as altitude rises, but there are other changes as well. Darwin, Forbes, von Humboldt, von Tschudi and other naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who weaved their way through South America commented repeatedly on the tolerance or apparent indifference of the indigenes to the rigors of life at altitudes above 3000 meters but its impact upon lowlanders. Von Tschudi (1847), for example, observed 'in the cordillera the effect of the diminished atmospheric pressure on the human frame shows itself in intolerable symptoms of weariness and an extreme difficulty of breathing . . . . The first symptoms are usually felt at the elevation of 12,600 feet (3800 m) above the sea. These symptoms are vertigo, dimness of sight and hearing, pains in the head and nausea . . . . Inhabitants of the coast and Europeans, who for the first time visit the lofty regions of the cordillera, are usually attacked with this disorder. ' But von Tschudi's description of acute mountain sickness was hardly the first; his Spanish predecessors had known and commented upon it too.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2141-2
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    Geographical Information Systems for Urban and Regional Planning (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789401716772
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 278 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: The GeoJournal Library 17
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 17
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Cartography ; Regional economics ; Human Geography ; Geography. ; Spatial economics.
    Abstract: I Geographical Information Systems and Planning -- 1 Geographical information systems: the emerging requirements -- 2 The application of geographical information systems in urban and regional planning -- 3 Growth of geographical information system applications in developing countries -- II Data Management -- 4 Intelligent information systems for accessing planning databases: the San Francisco experience -- 5 Geographical information systems database design: experiences of the Dutch National Physical Planning Agency -- III Urban Planning Applications -- 6 Information management within the planning process -- 7 Fixed asset management and geographical information systems in the Netherlands -- 8 Geographic information system development in Tacoma -- IV Decision Support Systems for Land Use Plannng -- 9 Regional planning for new housing in Randstad Holland -- 10 Geographical information system applications in environmental impact assessment -- 11 A geographical information system based decision support system for environmental zoning -- 12 Multicriteria analysis and geographical information systems: an application to agricultural land use in the Netherlands -- V Spatial Analysis, Modelling and Decision Support -- 13 The application of geographical information systems in the spatial analysis of crime -- 14 Spatial analysis and geographical information systems: a review of progress and possibilities -- 15 Geographical information systems and model based analysis: towards effective decision support systems -- 16 Decision support and geographical information systems -- VI Education and Management -- 17 Education in geographical information systems -- 18 How to cope with geographical information systems in your organisation -- VII Developments in Hardware and Software -- 19 Geoprocessing and geographic information system hardware and software: looking toward the 1990s -- 20 Geographical information systems and visualization -- VIII Information Based Societies -- 21 Geographical information systems in perspective -- References -- Color plates.
    Abstract: In August 1989, a Summer Institute was held at the Academie van Bouwkunst, the seventeenth century home of Amsterdam's School of Architecture, Town Planning and Landscape. The meeting brought together experts in Geographical Information Systems from throughout the world to address an international audience of planners. The contents of this book reflect many of the themes that were presented and discussed at the conference. The Summer Institute, let alone this volume, would not have been possible without the support of the International Association for the Development and Management of Existing and New Towns (INTNAIVN), the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISoCaRP), The National Physical Planning Agency of the Netherlands (RPD) and the Berlage Studio. We wish to acknowledge the assistance provided by these organisations and by the various sponsors: The Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, the Municipality of Amsterdam, Logisterion b.v., ESRI, UNISYS, MABON b.v., SPSS, PRIME Computer Inc., PANDATA. The provision of hardware facilities by the various computer companies allowed immensely valuable 'hands on' experience to be gained by all the participants.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1677-2
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