Advanced Spatial Analysis

Spatial Demography Book List

The book titles below represent a partial and subjective listing. Please recommend other books that have a spatial analysis component and would be of interest to population scientists by contacting Stephen A. Matthews. Thank you in advance.

GIS - General

  • Longley, P.A., Goodchild, M.F., Maguire, D.J. and Rhind, D.W. 2005. Geographic Information Systems and Science. John Wiley & Sons: New York, NY.

GIS - Social Science

  • Goodchild, M.F. and Janelle, D.G. [Eds.] 2004. Spatially Integrated Social Science. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. Preview
  • Kidner, D. Higgs, G. and White, S. [Eds]. 2003. Socio-economic Applications of Geographic Information Science. Taylor and Francis: London, UK.
  • Martin, D. 1996. Geographic Information Systems: socioeconomic applications (Second Edition). Routledge: London, UK.

Criminology

  • Goldsmith, V., McGuire, P.G., Mollenkopf, J.B., and Ross, T.A. 1999. Analyzing crime Patterns: frontiers of practice. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA
  • Harries, K. 1999. Mapping Crime: principle and practice. US Department of Justice. This book can be downloaded in full at http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/178919.pdf.
  • Hirschfield, A. and Bowers, K. [Eds.]. 2001. Mapping and analyzing crime data: lessons from research and practice. Taylor and Francis, London, UK.

Population and the Environment

  • Fox, J., Rindfuss, R.R., Walsh, S.J. and Mishra, V. 2003. People and the Environment: approaches for linking household community surveys to remote sensing and GIS. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, MA.
  • Liverman, D., Moran, E.F., Rindfuss, R.R., and Stern, P. [Eds.]. 1998. People and Pixels: linking remote sensing and social science. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C.

Population Geography

  • Plane, D. and Rogerson, P.A. 1994. The Geographical Analysis of Population. John Wiley: New York, NY.

Public Health & Spatial Epidemiology

  • Albert, D. et al. 2000.Spatial Analysis, GIS, and Remote Sensing Applications in the Health Sciences. Ann Arbor Press: Ann Arbor, MI
  • Cromley, E.K. and McLafferty, S.L. 2002. GIS and Public Health. Guilford Press: New York, NY.
  • Elliot, P., Wakefield, J.C., Best, N.G. and Briggs, D.J. 2000. Spatial Epidemiology: methods and applications. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
  • Gatrell, A.C. and Löytönen, M. [Eds.]. 1998. GIS and Health. Taylor and Francis: London.
  • Kawachi, I. and Berkman, L. [Eds.]. 2003. Neighborhoods and Health. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
  • Khan, O.A. and Skinner, R. [Eds.]. 2003. Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications. Idea Group, Inc: Hershey, PA.
  • Melnick, A.L. 2002. Introduction to GIS in Public Health. Aspen Publishers: Gaithersburg, MD.

Urban Studies/Planning

  • Longley, P.A. and Batty, M. [Eds.]. 2003. Advanced Spatial Analysis: the CASA book of GIS. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA.
  • National Research Council. 2003. GIS for Housing and Urban Development. National Research Council, The National Academies Press: Washington, D.C.
  • Stillwell, J. and Clarke, G. 2004. Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, UK.

Spatial Analysis

  • Fotheringham, A.S., Brundsen, C. and Charlton, M. 2002. Geographically Weighted Regression: the analysis of spatially varying relationships. John Wiley & Sons: New York, NY.
  • O'Sullivan, D. and Unwin, D.J. 2002. Geographic Information Analysis. John Wiley & Sons: New York, NY.