GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making - 9780367387822

CRC Press

A compilation of papers by leading researchers, GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making focuses on the conceptualization and implementation of GIS methodologies to identify spatial patterns in social phenomena. It also examines the creation of transnational spatial-data infrastructures and the development of geodemographics. The author discusses organizational issues, including the development of tools for policy making. The text brings together the results of researchers working across the entire spectrum of evidence-based policy making, focusing on the exploration for new data sources and exploring ways to bring GIS-based methods to the public and to policy-makers. > Although much has been written on evidence-based policy making, this is the first volume to address the potential of GIS in this arena. GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making covers the development of new methodological approaches, emphasizing the identification of spatial patterns in social phenomena. It examines organi.