ABSTRACT
This is the fourth volume of applications of geographical modelling and planning produced by members and friends of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on ‘Applied Geography’. Each year the Commission holds two conferences and invites contributions from those geographers (and related disciplines) who work actively with public or private sector planners on real-world issues. We believe these contributions help to show how much geographical research is policy relevant to a wide variety of agencies. In this particular volume we explore the use of GIS and spatial modelling in applied geography. Although still heavily criticised by many ‘critical’ human geographers, the field of GIS and spatial modelling has been transformed since the quantitative revolution of the 1960s. The field is now much more policy relevant and the 19 chapters in this book show research undertaken with many different types of policy makers.
