Just ran across this interesting book related to GIS and Social Science applications.
http://www.csiss.org/best-practices/siss/
CSISS
Best Practice Publications:
Spatially Integrated Social Science
Edited
by Michael F. Goodchild and Donald G. Janelle
Oxford University Press, 2004
Table of Contents
Foreword: Norman Bradburn
Preface
Chapter
- Thinking Spatially in the Social Sciences
Michael F. Goodchild and Donald G. Janelle
- Inferring the Behavior of Households from
Remotely Sensed Changes in Land Cover:
Current Methods and Future Directions
Bruce Boucek and Emilio F. Moran
- Geo-visualization of Human Activity Patterns
Using 3-D GIS: A Time-Geographic Approach
Mei-Po Kwan and Jiyeong Lee
- Agent-Based Modeling: From Individual Residential
Choice to Urban Residential Dynamics
Itzhak Benenson
- Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Data: Implications
for the Practice of Micro-Scale Spatial Modeling
David O'Sullivan
- Identifying Ethnic Neighborhoods with Census
Data: Group Concentration and Spatial Clustering
John R. Logan and Wenquan Zhang
- Spatial Analyses of Homicide with Areal
Data
Steven F. Messner and Luc Anselin
- Spatial (Dis)Advantage and Homicide in Chicago
Neighborhoods
Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff
- Measuring Spatial Diffusion of Shots Fired
Activity Across City Neighborhoods
George Tita and Jacqueline Cohen
- The Spatial Structure of Urban Political
Discussion Networks
Munroe Eagles, Paul Bélanger, and Hugh W. Calkins
- Mapping Social Exclusion and Inclusion in
Developing Countries: Spatial Patterns of São Paulo
in the 1990s
Gilberto Câmara, Aldaiza Sposati, Dirce Koga, Antonio
Miguel Monteiro, Frederico Roman Ramos,
Eduardo Camargo, and Suzana Druck Fuks
- Business Location and Spatial Externalities:
Tying Concepts to Measures
Stuart H. Sweeney and Edward J. Feser
- Updating Spatial Perspectives and Analytical
Frameworks in Urban Research
Qing Shen
- Spatial Analysis of Regional Income Inequality
Sergio J. Rey
- Shaping Policy Decisions with Spatial Analysis
Ted K. Bradshaw and Brian Muller
- Geographical Approaches for Reconstructing
Past Human Behavior from Prehistoric Roadways
John Kantner
- Time, Space, and Archaeological Landscapes:
Establishing Connections in the First Millennium BC
Patrick Daly and Gary Lock
- Spatial Perspectives in Public Health
Anthony C. Gatrell and Janette E. Rigby
- The Role of Spatial Analysis in Demographic
Research
John R. Weeks
- Spatial Interaction Models of International
Telecommunication Flows
Jean-Michel Guldmann
- Planning Scenario Visualization and Assessment:
A Cellular Automata Based Integrated Spatial Decision Support
System
Roger White, Bas Straatman, and Guy Engelen