Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place

by Steven J. Steinberg, Sheila L. Steinberg

Geographic Information Systems for the Social Investigating Space and Place is the first book to take a cutting-edge approach to integrating spatial concepts into the social sciences. In this text, authors Steven J. Steinberg and Sheila L. Steinberg simplify GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for practitioners and students in the social sciences through the use of examples and actual program exercises so that they can become comfortable incorporating this research tool into their repertoire and scope of interest. The authors provide learning objectives for each chapter, chapter summaries, links to relevant Web sites, as well as suggestions for student research projects.

272 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

Reviews

[Brian Melchers]

Provides some good references to software tools and websites. There are also some good real-world examples of how GIS can help with social sciences. I found it a bit wordy. Three nouns are strung together a lot, e.g. “data collection methods,” spatial qualitative analysis.” I guess it is necessary but I don’t prefer it.

[Dicksonanderson]

I love it