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Book Review: Quantitative Methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GIS, 2nd edition, F. Wang, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 301 pages, 2015, £76.99 $119.95 ISBN 9781466584723

Book Review: Quantitative Methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GIS, 2nd edition, F. Wang,... Appl. Spatial Analysis (2016) 9:283–285 DOI 10.1007/s12061-015-9173-z Book Review: Quantitative Methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GIS, 2nd edition,F.Wang,CRCPress, Boca Raton, FL, 301 pages, 2015, £76.99 $119.95 ISBN 9781466584723 Gary Higgs Received: 30 October 2015 /Accepted: 2 November 2015 / Published online: 16 November 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Having reviewed the first edition of this book for another journal (Higgs 2008), I was particularly interested in how some of the original materials had been updated in this edition to reflect new approaches and developments in GIS that have come to the fore in the interim period. The addition of the term BSocio-economic^ to the title of this second edition leaves the reader in no doubt as to the primary application areas covered here with a particular focus on GIS in action in Bsocial science, urban planning and public policy^. However, as alluded to several times during the course of the book, it may well be the case that some of these tools could be used in different contexts and indeed some have been drawn from, for example, physical and environmental domains. The author suggests in the Preface that over 60 % of the material included in this edition http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy Springer Journals

Book Review: Quantitative Methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GIS, 2nd edition, F. Wang, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 301 pages, 2015, £76.99 $119.95 ISBN 9781466584723

Higgs, Gary
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy , Volume 9 (2) – Nov 16, 2015
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Copyright © 2015 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
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Social Sciences; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Regional/Spatial Science
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1874-463X
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1874-4621
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10.1007/s12061-015-9173-z
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Appl. Spatial Analysis (2016) 9:283–285 DOI 10.1007/s12061-015-9173-z Book Review: Quantitative Methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GIS, 2nd edition,F.Wang,CRCPress, Boca Raton, FL, 301 pages, 2015, £76.99 $119.95 ISBN 9781466584723 Gary Higgs Received: 30 October 2015 /Accepted: 2 November 2015 / Published online: 16 November 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Having reviewed the first edition of this book for another journal (Higgs 2008), I was particularly interested in how some of the original materials had been updated in this edition to reflect new approaches and developments in GIS that have come to the fore in the interim period. The addition of the term BSocio-economic^ to the title of this second edition leaves the reader in no doubt as to the primary application areas covered here with a particular focus on GIS in action in Bsocial science, urban planning and public policy^. However, as alluded to several times during the course of the book, it may well be the case that some of these tools could be used in different contexts and indeed some have been drawn from, for example, physical and environmental domains. The author suggests in the Preface that over 60 % of the material included in this edition

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