Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health
This book focuses on a range of geospatial applications for environmental health research, including environmental justice issues, environmental health disparities, air and water contamination, and infectious diseases. Environmental health research is at
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Geotechnologies and the Environment Volume 4 Series Editors: Jay D. Gatrell, School of Graduate Studies and Department of Geography, Geology, and Anthropology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, USA Ryan R. Jensen, Department of Geography, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA The “Geotechnologies and the Environment” series is intended to provide specialists in the geotechnologies and academics who utilize these technologies, with an opportunity to share novel approaches, present interesting (sometimes counter-intuitive) case studies, and most importantly to situate GIS, remote sensing, GPS, the internet, new technologies, and methodological advances in a real world context. In doing so, the books in the series will be inherently applied and reflect the rich variety of research performed by geographers and allied professionals. Beyond the applied nature of many of the papers and individual contributions, the series interrogates the dynamic relationship between nature and society. For this reason, many contributors focus on human-environment interactions. The series are not limited to an interpretation of the environment as nature per se. Rather, the series “places” people and social forces in context and thus explore the many sociospatial environments humans construct for themselves as they settle the landscape. Consequently, contributions will use geotechnologies to examine both urban and rural landscapes.
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Juliana A. Maantay · Sara McLafferty Editors
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Editors Prof. Juliana A. Maantay Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences Department City University of New York Lehman College Bronx, NY 10468 USA [email protected]
Prof. Sara McLafferty Department of Geography University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 USA [email protected]
Cover artwork by Kristen Grady, Urban GISc Lab, Lehman College, City University of New York, adapted from Figure 2.19, showing a continuous surface created by a Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) analysis. ISBN 978-94-007-0328-5 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0329-2 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0329-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011921119 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Recently, two disciplines – geospatial analysis and environmental health began to interact with each other. Each of them emerged from a decade of growth in their knowledge base, numbers of engaged professionals, and validated me
