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Robert Vogler – Adrijana Car – Josef Strobl – Gerald Griesebner (Eds.)
GI_Forum 2014, Volume 2
Geospatial Innovation for Society – Conference Proceedings
Michael Hagenlocher,
Stefan Kienberger,
Stefan Lang,
Thomas Blaschke
S. 197 - 206 doi: 10.1553/giscience2014s197
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Abstract:
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) impose a heavy burden on vulnerable populations. Although vulnerability has increasingly gained ground as a promising concept in VBD literature in recent years, little emphasis has been placed on developing methods for quantifying and mapping it. Integrated spatial indicators are a powerful means for grasping the complexity of vulnerability in a spatially explicit manner, and translating it into policy-relevant information. Based on the ‘vulnerability cube’ concept, this paper presents lessons learnt from a benchmarking exercise of three spatial vulnerability assessments. The assessments were carried out for two different diseases, malaria and dengue fever, at three different spatial scales (local, national, and regional), using three different spatial reporting units (administrative units, pixels, and geons). We found that the choice of the spatial scale and the reporting unit for modelling, visualizing, and communicating vulnerability to VBDs has both conceptual and methodological/practical implications that developers and users of vulnerability indices should be aware of.
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GIS as a technology has come a long way, from
the early adoption of technical wizardry to the
ubiquitous, if unconscious use by the masses. The
emergence of a GISociety is on its way through
technological development, theoretical and empirical
scientific research and inclusion of technology
into education with increasing pedagogical justification.
Defining new dimensions of hard- and software,
brainware and orgware are all needed to
further enhance the GISociety with new geospatial
innovations.
This issue of the Geoinformatics Forum (www.gi-forum.org)
links into these research areas. We are pleased to present
work by researchers who actively contribute to the
rising of geospatial innovations for society in theoretical,
empirical, technical, and educational terms.
This reflects that innovative alterations can only be
created though close interaction among the domains
of science, technology and education.
Topics of the 2014 issue therefore include:
• Innovations in geospatial technologies
• Advances in GIScience
• Monitoring global change
• Geoinformation for public health
• Education with digital earth
• Spatial Citizenship education
• Geospatial learning environments
The book is aimed at researchers and practioners
in the field of geoinformation with an academic,
industrial or educational background.
Work on this publication has been co-funded by the following projects and networks
funded by the European commission:
LLP-Comenius multilateral project SPACIT
(517908-LLP-2011-1-AT-COMENIUS-CMP)
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