This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how gov…
Learn how to embed maps on web pages, annotate the embedded maps with data, generate KML files to store and reuse map data, and enable client applications to request spatial data through web services. Explains techniques for visualizing masses of data and animating multiple item…
We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Maps and Politics asks whether bias-free cartography is possible and demonstrates that maps are not straightforward texts, but contain political and polit…
Neural networks as the commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in the GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear and complex geographic phenomena. However, there are …
This text is an exploration of the origins and lasting influence of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, and, nature.
Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone's lives. People are being 'disciplined' by neoliberal economic agendas, 'transformed' by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and ne…
