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Geo-ICT in Demography: The Impact of Developments in Geoinformation and Geotechnology on the Discipline of Demography

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Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science

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Developments in geoinformation and geocommunications technologies have had a profound impact on demography over the last 30 years, stimulating the transformation from a discipline strongly grounded in a spatial theory, concept and method to one in which the geographical dimension has gained increasing prominence. New fields such as spatial demography and geodemographics have emerged, and new geodatasets have become available, facilitated by new user-friendly web-based access interfaces. Moreover, new visualisation, analysis and modelling methods have been developed that make use of the enhancements in computer power and sophistication. This chapter provides an overview of these changes and suggests that modelling remains the dominant approach, while use is made of the geotechnology tools for database management and mapping.

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Stillwell, J. (2009). Geo-ICT in Demography: The Impact of Developments in Geoinformation and Geotechnology on the Discipline of Demography. In: Scholten, H.J., van de Velde, R., van Manen, N. (eds) Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science. GeoJournal Library, vol 96. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2620-0_7

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