Papers from a conference held in Santa Barbara, January, 1992. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-289) and index.
Contents:
Land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon: applying GIS in human ecology research -- The use of GIS to measure spatial patterns of ethnic firms in the Los Angeles garment industry -- A formal justification for the application of GIS to the cultural ecological analysis of land-use intensification and deforestation in the Amazon -- Integrating socioeconomic and geographic information systems: a methodology for rural development and agricultural policy design -- Empirical and methodological problems in developing a GIS database for Yanomanö tribesmen located in remote areas --A time to rend, a time to sew: new perspectives on Northern Anasazi sociopolitical development in late prehistory -- Moving from catchments to cognition: tentative steps toward a larger archaeological context for GIS -- An analysis of late-horizon settlement patterns in the Teotihuacan-Temascalapa Basins: a location-allocation and GIS-based approach -- The politics of settlement choice on the Northwest Coast: cognition, GIS, and coastal landscapes -- The role of GIS in the management of archaeological data: an example of application for the Spanish administration -- The role of GIS in the interdisciplinary investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya, a Pleistocene Archaeological locality -- Danebury revisited: an English Iron Age Hillfort in a digital landscape -- Geographic information systems and spatial analysis in the social sciences.
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