Table Of ContentPlanning and Socioeconomic Applications
Geotechnologies and the Environment
Volume 1
The“GeotechnologiesandtheEnvironment”seriesisintendedtoprovidespecialists
inthegeotechnologiesandacademicswhoutilizethesetechnologies,withanoppor-
tunity to share novel approaches, present interesting (sometimes counter-intuitive)
casestudies,andmostimportantlytosituateGIS,remotesensing,GPS,theinternet,
new technologies, and methodological advances in a real world context. In doing
so,thebooksintheserieswillbeinherentlyappliedandreflecttherichvarietyof
researchperformedbygeographersandalliedprofessionals.
Beyond the applied nature of many of the papers and individual contributions,
theseriesinterrogatesthedynamicrelationshipbetweennatureandsociety.Forthis
reason,manycontributorsfocusonhuman-environmentinteractions.Theseriesare
notlimitedtoaninterpretationoftheenvironmentasnatureperse.Rather,theseries
“places”peopleandsocialforcesincontextandthusexplorethemanysocio-spatial
environments humans construct for themselves as they settle the landscape. Con-
sequently, contributions will use geotechnologies to examine both urban and rural
landscapes.
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Contents
1 GeotechnologiesinPlaceandtheEnvironment .................... 1
JayD.GatrellandRyanR.Jensen
2 GISandEconomicDevelopment ................................ 5
NeilReid,MichaelC.Carroll,BruceW.SmithandJosephP.Frizado
3 IdentifyingUrbanNeighborhoodsforTreeCanopyRestoration
ThroughCommunityParticipation .............................. 29
JeffreyS.WilsonandGregH.Lindsey
4 The Spatially Varying Relationship Between Local Land-Use
PoliciesandUrbanGrowth:AGeographicallyWeightedRegression
Analysis....................................................... 43
RobertHanham,RichardJ.HochandJ.ScottSpiker
5 GIS,EcosystemsandUrbanPlanninginAuckland,NewZealand:
Technology,ProcessesandPeople ................................ 57
FraserMorganandEricW.LaFary
6 HyperspectralApplicationsinUrbanGeography .................. 79
VijayLulla
7 GIS and Spatio-temporal Trends in Inequality: Tracking
ProfitabilityAccordingtoFirmSizeinJapaneseManufacturing,
1985–2006 .................................................... 87
ShawnBanasick
8 Situating Urban Environmental Risk: Using GIScience
toUnderstandRiskinaMidwesternCity .........................109
TrevorFullerandJayD.Gatrell
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9 GISandChallengestoPlanningandDevelopmentApplications
inPeripheralRegions...........................................125
RajivThakurandMadhuriSharma
10 GeospatialTechnologiesforSurveillanceofHeatRelatedHealth
Disasters ......................................................139
DanielP.Johnson
11 Spatial Analysis, Policy, Planning, and Alternative Energy
Production ....................................................155
JamesPaceandJayD.Gatrell
12 EnvironmentalandSocialInfluencesonHistoricalCountyCreation
intheUnitedStates ............................................183
Karinne Rancie, Samuel M. Otterstrom, Jeffrey M. Sanders
andFredricJ.Donaldson
13 LocalGovernmentUseofGISinComprehensivePlanning .........205
MarkW.PattersonandNancyHoalst-Pullen
Index .............................................................221
Contributors
ShawnBanasick DepartmentofGeography,KentStateUniversity,Kent,OH,
USA
Michael C. Carroll Center for Regional Development and Department of
Economics,BowlingGreenStateUniversity,BowlingGreen,OH,USA
Fredric J. Donaldson Department of Geography, Brigham Young University,
Provo,UT,USA
Joseph P. Frizado Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University,
BowlingGreen,OH,USA
Trevor Fuller Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign,Urbana,IL,USA
Jay D. Gatrell School of Graduate Studies and Department of Geography,
Geology,&AnthropologyTerreHaute,IN,USA
Robert Hanham Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia
University,Morgantown,WV,USA
NancyHoalst-Pullen DepartmentofGeographyandAnthropology,Kennesaw
StateUniversity,Kennesaw,GA,USA
Richard J. Hoch Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Indiana
UniversityofPennsylvania,Indiana,PA,USA
RyanR.Jensen DepartmentofGeography,BrighamYoungUniversity,Provo,
UT,USA
Daniel P. Johnson Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,
Indianapolis,IN,USA
EricW.LaFary TheUniversityofAuckland,SchoolofGeography,Geology&
EnvironmentalScience,Auckland,NewZealand
GregH.Lindsey HubertH.HumphreyInstituteofPublicAffairs,Universityof
Minnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA
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Vijay Lulla Department Geography, Geology, & Anthropology, Indiana State
University,TerreHaute,IN,USA
FraserMorgan LandcareResearch,Auckland,NewZealand;TheUniversityof
Auckland,SchoolofGeography,Geology&EnvironmentalScience,Auckland,
NewZealand
SamuelM.Otterstrom DepartmentofGeography,BrighamYoungUniversity,
Provo,UT,USA
JamesPace DepartmentofGeography,Geology&Anthropology,IndianaState
University,TerreHaute,IN,USA
Mark W. Patterson Department of Geography and Anthropology, Kennesaw
StateUniversity,Kennesaw,GA,USA
KarinneRancie DepartmentofGeography,BrighamYoungUniversity,Provo,
UT,USA
Neil Reid Urban Affairs Center and Department of Geography and Planning,
UniversityofToledo,Toledo,OH,USA
JeffreyM.Sanders DepartmentofGeography,BrighamYoungUniversity,Provo,
UT,USA
Madhuri Sharma Department of Geography, The Ohio State University,
Columbus,OH,USA
BruceW.Smith CenterforRegionalDevelopmentandDepartmentofGeography,
BowlingGreenStateUniversity,BowlingGreen,OH,USA
J.ScottSpiker IndependentScholar,Solon,OH,USA
Rajiv Thakur Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama,
Mobile,AL,USA
Jeffrey S. Wilson Department of Geography, Indiana University-Purdue
UniversityIndianapolis,Indianapolis,IN,USA
