Timothy Nyerges is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington.  Helen Couclelis is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara in 1982, she spent several years as a professional planner and policy advisor in Greece. She has held visiting appointments at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Waterloo, the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Her research interests are in the areas of geographic information science, urban and regional modeling and planning, integrated urban and environmental modeling, planning support systems, and spatial cognition. She is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. She has co-edited A Ground for Common Search (with P. Gould and R.G. Golledge) and Geographic Information Research: Bridging the Atlantic (with M. Craglia). She has served as Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and as member of the executive committee of the NSF-funded Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS). Dr Robert McMaster teaches in the Geography department at the University of Minnesota, US.

The wide ranging contributions to this very important volume demonstrate how success in using GIS to understand society is intimately linked to society′s understanding of GIS. Tim Nyerges, Helen Couclelis and Bob McMaster have created the definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbook is lucid, integrative, comprehensive and, above all, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal process.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Geographic Information Systems and Society - Timothy L. Nyerges, Robert McMaster, and Helen CouclelisA Twenty Year Research Perspective PART TWO: GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science - Donald G. Janelle and Michael F. GoodchildGeographic Ontologies and Society - Marinos Kavouras and Margarita KoklaThe Social Potential of GIS - Stacy WarrenCritical GIS - Sarah Elwood, Nadine Schuurman, and Matthew W. WilsonSECTION TWO: GIS AND MODERN LIFE 107Connecting Geospatial Information to Society Through Cyberinfrastructure - Marc P. Armstrong, Timothy L. Nyerges, Shaowen Wang, and Dawn WrightEnvironmental Sustainability - Clodoveu A. Davis, Jr., Frederico T. Fonseca, and Gilberto CamaraThe Role of Geographic Information Science and Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Integration of People and Nature GIS and Population Health - Nadine Schuurman and Nathaniel BellAn Overview Cogito Ergo Mobilis Sum - Martin RaubalThe Impact of Location-based Services on Our Mobile Lives SECTION THREE: ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS IN GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH Human-scaled Visualizations and Society - Dimitris Ballas and Danny DorlingIndigenous Peoples′ Issues and Indigenous Uses of GIS - Melinda LaituriSpatial Modeling of Social Networks - Carter T. Butts and Ryan M. ActonGIS Designs for Studying Human Activities in a Space-Time Context - Hongbo Yu and Shih-Lung ShawSECTION FOUR: GIS IN ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Emerging Frameworks in the Information Age - Ian MasserThe Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Phenomenon Spatial Data Infrastructure for Cadastres - Francis HarveyFoundations and Challenges A GIS-based Computer-supported Collaborative Work Flow System in Urban Planning - Anthony G.O. Yeh and Kenneth S.S. TangGIS and Emergency Management - Christopher T. Emrich, Susan L. Cutter and Paul J. WeschlerSECTION FIVE: GIS IN PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Designing Public Participation Geographic Information Systems - Piotr JankowskiOnline Public Participation GIS for Spatial Planning - Richard KingstonParticipatory Approaches in GIS and Society Research - Sarah ElwoodFoundations, Practices, and Future Directions PPGIS Implementation and the Transformation of US Planning Practice - Laxmi RamasubramanianPolitics and Power in Participation and GIS Use for Community Decision Making - Rina GhoseSECTION SIX: VALUE, FAIRNESS AND PRIVACY IN A GIS CONTEXT Geographic Information Value Assessment - Roger LonghornGeovisualization of Spatial Equity - Emily TalenNatural Resource Conflicts, Their Management, and GIS Applications - Peter A. Kwaku KyemLegal and Ethical Issues of Using Geospatial Technologies in Society - Daniel Z. SuiPART THREE: CONCLUSION GIS and Society Research - Helen Couclelis, Timothy L. Nyerges, and Robert McMasterReflections and Emerging Themes

Timothy Nyerges is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington.  Helen Couclelis is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara in 1982, she spent several years as a professional planner and policy advisor in Greece. She has held visiting appointments at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Waterloo, the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Her research interests are in the areas of geographic information science, urban and regional modeling and planning, integrated urban and environmental modeling, planning support systems, and spatial cognition. She is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. She has co-edited A Ground for Common Search (with P. Gould and R.G. Golledge) and Geographic Information Research: Bridging the Atlantic (with M. Craglia). She has served as Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and as member of the executive committee of the NSF-funded Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS). Dr Robert McMaster teaches in the Geography department at the University of Minnesota, US.

The wide ranging contributions to this very important volume demonstrate how success in using GIS to understand society is intimately linked to society′s understanding of GIS. Tim Nyerges, Helen Couclelis and Bob McMaster have created the definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbook is lucid, integrative, comprehensive and, above all, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal process.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Geographic Information Systems and Society - Timothy L. Nyerges, Robert McMaster, and Helen CouclelisA Twenty Year Research Perspective PART TWO: GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science - Donald G. Janelle and Michael F. GoodchildGeographic Ontologies and Society - Marinos Kavouras and Margarita KoklaThe Social Potential of GIS - Stacy WarrenCritical GIS - Sarah Elwood, Nadine Schuurman, and Matthew W. WilsonSECTION TWO: GIS AND MODERN LIFE 107Connecting Geospatial Information to Society Through Cyberinfrastructure - Marc P. Armstrong, Timothy L. Nyerges, Shaowen Wang, and Dawn WrightEnvironmental Sustainability - Clodoveu A. Davis, Jr., Frederico T. Fonseca, and Gilberto CamaraThe Role of Geographic Information Science and Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Integration of People and Nature GIS and Population Health - Nadine Schuurman and Nathaniel BellAn Overview Cogito Ergo Mobilis Sum - Martin RaubalThe Impact of Location-based Services on Our Mobile Lives SECTION THREE: ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS IN GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH Human-scaled Visualizations and Society - Dimitris Ballas and Danny DorlingIndigenous Peoples′ Issues and Indigenous Uses of GIS - Melinda LaituriSpatial Modeling of Social Networks - Carter T. Butts and Ryan M. ActonGIS Designs for Studying Human Activities in a Space-Time Context - Hongbo Yu and Shih-Lung ShawSECTION FOUR: GIS IN ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Emerging Frameworks in the Information Age - Ian MasserThe Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Phenomenon Spatial Data Infrastructure for Cadastres - Francis HarveyFoundations and Challenges A GIS-based Computer-supported Collaborative Work Flow System in Urban Planning - Anthony G.O. Yeh and Kenneth S.S. TangGIS and Emergency Management - Christopher T. Emrich, Susan L. Cutter and Paul J. WeschlerSECTION FIVE: GIS IN PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Designing Public Participation Geographic Information Systems - Piotr JankowskiOnline Public Participation GIS for Spatial Planning - Richard KingstonParticipatory Approaches in GIS and Society Research - Sarah ElwoodFoundations, Practices, and Future Directions PPGIS Implementation and the Transformation of US Planning Practice - Laxmi RamasubramanianPolitics and Power in Participation and GIS Use for Community Decision Making - Rina GhoseSECTION SIX: VALUE, FAIRNESS AND PRIVACY IN A GIS CONTEXT Geographic Information Value Assessment - Roger LonghornGeovisualization of Spatial Equity - Emily TalenNatural Resource Conflicts, Their Management, and GIS Applications - Peter A. Kwaku KyemLegal and Ethical Issues of Using Geospatial Technologies in Society - Daniel Z. SuiPART THREE: CONCLUSION GIS and Society Research - Helen Couclelis, Timothy L. Nyerges, and Robert McMasterReflections and Emerging Themes

Timothy Nyerges is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington.  Helen Couclelis is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara in 1982, she spent several years as a professional planner and policy advisor in Greece. She has held visiting appointments at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Waterloo, the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Her research interests are in the areas of geographic information science, urban and regional modeling and planning, integrated urban and environmental modeling, planning support systems, and spatial cognition. She is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. She has co-edited A Ground for Common Search (with P. Gould and R.G. Golledge) and Geographic Information Research: Bridging the Atlantic (with M. Craglia). She has served as Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and as member of the executive committee of the NSF-funded Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS). Dr Robert McMaster teaches in the Geography department at the University of Minnesota, US.

The wide ranging contributions to this very important volume demonstrate how success in using GIS to understand society is intimately linked to society′s understanding of GIS. Tim Nyerges, Helen Couclelis and Bob McMaster have created the definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbook is lucid, integrative, comprehensive and, above all, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal process.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Geographic Information Systems and Society - Timothy L. Nyerges, Robert McMaster, and Helen CouclelisA Twenty Year Research Perspective PART TWO: GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science - Donald G. Janelle and Michael F. GoodchildGeographic Ontologies and Society - Marinos Kavouras and Margarita KoklaThe Social Potential of GIS - Stacy WarrenCritical GIS - Sarah Elwood, Nadine Schuurman, and Matthew W. WilsonSECTION TWO: GIS AND MODERN LIFE 107Connecting Geospatial Information to Society Through Cyberinfrastructure - Marc P. Armstrong, Timothy L. Nyerges, Shaowen Wang, and Dawn WrightEnvironmental Sustainability - Clodoveu A. Davis, Jr., Frederico T. Fonseca, and Gilberto CamaraThe Role of Geographic Information Science and Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Integration of People and Nature GIS and Population Health - Nadine Schuurman and Nathaniel BellAn Overview Cogito Ergo Mobilis Sum - Martin RaubalThe Impact of Location-based Services on Our Mobile Lives SECTION THREE: ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS IN GIS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH Human-scaled Visualizations and Society - Dimitris Ballas and Danny DorlingIndigenous Peoples′ Issues and Indigenous Uses of GIS - Melinda LaituriSpatial Modeling of Social Networks - Carter T. Butts and Ryan M. ActonGIS Designs for Studying Human Activities in a Space-Time Context - Hongbo Yu and Shih-Lung ShawSECTION FOUR: GIS IN ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Emerging Frameworks in the Information Age - Ian MasserThe Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Phenomenon Spatial Data Infrastructure for Cadastres - Francis HarveyFoundations and Challenges A GIS-based Computer-supported Collaborative Work Flow System in Urban Planning - Anthony G.O. Yeh and Kenneth S.S. TangGIS and Emergency Management - Christopher T. Emrich, Susan L. Cutter and Paul J. WeschlerSECTION FIVE: GIS IN PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Designing Public Participation Geographic Information Systems - Piotr JankowskiOnline Public Participation GIS for Spatial Planning - Richard KingstonParticipatory Approaches in GIS and Society Research - Sarah ElwoodFoundations, Practices, and Future Directions PPGIS Implementation and the Transformation of US Planning Practice - Laxmi RamasubramanianPolitics and Power in Participation and GIS Use for Community Decision Making - Rina GhoseSECTION SIX: VALUE, FAIRNESS AND PRIVACY IN A GIS CONTEXT Geographic Information Value Assessment - Roger LonghornGeovisualization of Spatial Equity - Emily TalenNatural Resource Conflicts, Their Management, and GIS Applications - Peter A. Kwaku KyemLegal and Ethical Issues of Using Geospatial Technologies in Society - Daniel Z. SuiPART THREE: CONCLUSION GIS and Society Research - Helen Couclelis, Timothy L. Nyerges, and Robert McMasterReflections and Emerging Themes