Women and GIS

Women and GIS
Author: Esri Press
Publisher: ESRI Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781589485280

"Twenty-three stories about how ordinary girls with very different passions have become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world. "--Amazon.com.

GIs and Frèauleins[

GIs and Frèauleins[
Author: Maria H. Höhn
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807853757

Hohn explores the encounter between Germans and the American troops stationed in the Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwest Germany, during the 1950s. Hohn shows that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were also debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, they also brought Jim Crow.

GIs and Germans

GIs and Germans
Author: Petra Goedde
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780300090222

"Goedde finds that as American soldiers fraternized with German civilians, particularly as they formed sexual relationships with women, they developed a feminized image of Germany that contrasted sharply with their wartime image of the aggressive Nazi storm trooper. A perception of German "victimhood" emerged that was fostered by the German population and adopted by Americans.

Gender Inequalities

Gender Inequalities
Author: Esra Ozdenerol
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367696641

Global changes in market access, climatic conditions, and the availability of natural resources intensify disparities in income, in assets and in power among genders. This book aims to explain these gender dynamics at macro and micro levels through GIS and spatial analysis and in-depth case studies carefully selected from around the world.

Undersea with GIS

Undersea with GIS
Author: Dawn J. Wright
Publisher: ESRI, Inc.
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2002
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781589480162

Companion CD-ROM includes 3-D underwater flythroughs, ArcView GIS extentions for marine applications, a K-12 lesson plan, and other supplemental materials.

Qualitative GIS

Qualitative GIS
Author: Meghan Cope
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1446244563

Geographic Information Systems are an essential tool for analyzing and representing quantitative spatial data. Qualitative GIS explains the recent integration of qualitative research with Geographical Information Systems With a detailed contextualising introduction, the text is organised in three sections: Representation: examines how researchers are using GIS to create new types of representations; working with spatial data, maps, and othervisualizations to incorporate multiple meanings and to provide texture and context. Analysis: discusses the new techniques of analysis that are emerging at the margins between qualitative research and GIS, this in the wider context of a critical review of mixed-methods in geographical research Theory: questions how knowledge is produced, showing how ideas of ′science′ and ′truth′ inform research, and demonstrates how qualitative GIS can be used to interrogate discussions of power, community, and social action Making reference to representation, analysis, and theory throughout, the text shows how to frame questions, collect data, analyze results, and represent findings in a truly integrated way. An important addition to the mixed methods literature, Qualitative GIS will be the standard reference for upper-level students and researchers using qualitative methods and Geographic Information Systems.

The Design and Implementation of Geographic Information Systems

The Design and Implementation of Geographic Information Systems
Author: John E. Harmon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2003-03-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0471431524

Presents strategies for application development, interface design, and enabling Web-based access. Includes numerous case studies and examples from the private and public sectors. Provides information on integrating legacy MIS systems and planning for future developments in database design.

GIS Applications in Agriculture

GIS Applications in Agriculture
Author: Francis J. Pierce
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2007-02-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1420007718

As the first volume in a unique series concentrating on in-depth discussions of GIS topics, GIS Applications in Agriculture examines ways that this powerful technology can help farmers/firms to produce a greater abundance of crops with more efficiency and at lower costs. Each chapter describes the nature of the problem, examines the purpose of the GIS application, describes methods used to develop the application, provides results, and offers a conclusion as well as other supportive information. When appropriate, it presents the underlying statistical approach for the GIS software that is used. This text also includes a CD-ROM that features data sets and the full color maps produced by the use of GIS.

Map Worlds

Map Worlds
Author: Will C. van den Hoonaard
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2013-09-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1554589339

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers. Map Worlds explores women as colourists in early times, describes the major houses of cartographic production, and delves into the economic function of intermarriages among cartographic houses and families. It relates how in later centuries, working from the margins, women produced maps to record painful tribal memories or sought to remedy social injustices. Much later, one woman so changed the way we think about continents that the shift has been likened to the Copernican revolution. Other women created order and wonder about the lunar landscape, and still others turned the art and science of making maps inside out, exposing the hidden, unconscious, and subliminal “text” of maps. Shared by all these map-makers are themes of social justice and making maps work for the betterment of humanity.

Data Feminism

Data Feminism
Author: Catherine D'Ignazio
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0262358530

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.