Societal Geo Innovation

Author : Arnold Bregt,Tapani Sarjakoski,Ron van Lammeren,Frans Rip
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319567594

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Societal Geo-innovation by Arnold Bregt,Tapani Sarjakoski,Ron van Lammeren,Frans Rip Pdf

This book contains the full research papers presented at the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The selected contributions show trends in the domain of geographic information science directed to spatio-temporal perception and spatio-temporal analysis. For that reason the book is also of interest to professionals and researchers in fields outside geographic information science, in which the application of geoinformation could be instrumental in sparking societal innovation.

Author : Arnold Bregt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1039698841

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Societal Geo-innovation by Arnold Bregt Pdf

Author : Chiara Certomà
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030804510

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Digital Social Innovation by Chiara Certomà Pdf

This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are redesigning the urban space and challenging the consolidated urban governance processes. By adopting a critical geography perspective, this ground-breaking analysis of digital social innovation provides the reader with an accessible overview of the way in which urban reproductive processes mobilise the physical and the virtual dimensions of the city and generate distinctive spatial configurations. Together with novel urban narratives and socio-technical imaginaries, these support the existing geometries of power or construct new ones. The author clearly describes contemporary cities as the new battlegrounds for controlling the digital sphere, shaped by the interplay between digital capitalism and resistance movements. In light of grassroots initiatives advanced by cyber-activists, e-makers and hackers, the book unveils the socio-political and cultural underpinnings of the revolution produced by the digital social innovations in the city and the socio-technological regimes supporting them. This author successfully sheds new critical light on traditional innovation studies exploring the debate on digital innovation through the lens of social and cultural geography providing an invaluable reference for those working in this field.

Author : Frank Moulaert,Erik Swyngedouw,Flavia Martinelli,Sara Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136953224

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Can Neighbourhoods Save the City? by Frank Moulaert,Erik Swyngedouw,Flavia Martinelli,Sara Gonzalez Pdf

For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world. SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building – is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organizing urban collectives are reshaping the urban scene in dynamic, creative, innovative and empowering ways. It argues that such grass-roots initiatives are vital for generating a socially cohesive urban condition that exists alongside the official state-organized forms of urban governance. The book is thus a major contribution to socio-political literature, as it seeks to overcome the duality between community-development studies and strategies, and the solidarity-based making of a diverse society based upon the recognising and maintaining of citizenship rights. It will be of particular interest to both students and researchers in the fields of urban studies, social geography and political science.

Author : Yola Georgiadou,Diana Reckien
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783039213375

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Innovative Geo-Information Tools for Governance by Yola Georgiadou,Diana Reckien Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Innovative Geo-Information Tools for Governance that was published in IJGI

Author : Jack Stilgoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317909149

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Experiment Earth by Jack Stilgoe Pdf

Experiments in geoengineering – intentionally manipulating the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming – have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation. Drawing on three years of sociological research working with scientists on one of the world’s first major geoengineering projects, this book examines the politics of experimentation. Geoengineering provides a test case for rethinking the responsibilities of scientists and asking how science can take better care of the futures that it helps bring about. This book gives students, researchers and the general reader interested in the place of science in contemporary society a compelling framework for future thinking and discussion.

Author : David Lane,Denise Pumain,Sander Ernst van der Leeuw,Geoffrey West
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402096631

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Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change by David Lane,Denise Pumain,Sander Ernst van der Leeuw,Geoffrey West Pdf

Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. Most work prefers to study its context and its consequences. As a result, we are as a society, lacking the scientific tools to understand, improve or otherwise impact on the processes of invention and innovation. This book delves deeply into that topic, taking the position that the complex systems approach, with its emphasis on ‘emergence’, is better suited than our traditional approach to the phenomenon. In a collection of very coherent papers, which are the result of an EU-funded four year international research team’s effort, it addresses various aspect of the topic from different disciplinary angles. One of the main emphases is the need, in the social sciences, to move away from neo-darwinist ‘population thinking’ to ‘organization thinking’ if we want to understand social evolution. Another main emphasis is on developing a generative approach to invention and innovation, looking in detail at the contexts within which invention and innovation occur, and how these contexts impact on the chances for success or failure. Throughout, the book is infused with interesting new insights, but also presents several well-elaborated case studies that connect the ideas with a substantive body of ‘real world’ information.

Author : M.P. Feldman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401733335

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The Geography of Innovation by M.P. Feldman Pdf

This book offers a geographic dimension to the study of innovation and product commercialization. Building on the literature in economics and geography, this book demonstrates that product innovation clusters spatially in regions which provide concentrations of the knowledge needed for the commercialization process. The book develops a conceptual model which links the location of new product innovations to the sources of these knowledge inputs. The geographic concentration of this knowledge fonns a technological infrastructure which promotes infonnation transfers, and lowers the risks and the costs of engaging in innovative activity. Empirical estimation confinns that the location of product innovation is related to the underlying technological infrastructure, and that the location of the knowledge inputs are mutually reinforcing in defining a region's competitive advantage. The book concludes by considering the policy implications of these fmdings for both private finns and state governments. This work is intended for academics, policy practitioners and students in the fields of innovation and technological change, geography and regional science, and economic development. This work is part of a larger research effort to understand why the location of innovative activity varies spatially, specifically the externalities and increasing returns which accrue to location. xi Acknowledgements This work has benefitted greatly from discussions with friends and colleagues. I wish to specifically note the contribution of Mark Kamlet, Wes Cohen, Richard Florida, Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch. I would like to thank Gail Cohen Shaivitz for her dedication in editing the final manuscript.

Author : Johannes Glückler,Emmanuel Lazega,Ingmar Hammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319450230

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Knowledge and Networks by Johannes Glückler,Emmanuel Lazega,Ingmar Hammer Pdf

This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel for a long time: social network theory and the geography of knowledge. This book considers that relational thinking has become increasingly important for scholars to capture societal outcomes by studying social relations and networks, whereas the role of place, space and spatial scales has been somewhat neglected outside an emergent geography of knowledge. The individual contributions help integrate network arguments of connectivity, geographical arguments of contiguity and contextuality into a more comprehensive understanding of the ways in which people and organizations are constrained by and make use of space and networks for learning and innovation. Experts in the fields of geography, sociology, economics, political science, psychology, management and organizational studies develop conceptual models and propose empirical research that illustrates the ways in which networks and geography play together in processes of innovation, learning, leadership, and power. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Author : Klaus Gierhake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3944682513

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Social Innovation and territorial impacts by Klaus Gierhake Pdf

Applied Geography can be used in all sub-areas of geography, but it appears as a particularly effective approach in studying planning strategies. It aims to apply existing methodological knowledge to new objects. This procedure requires constant reflection on: existing theoretical concepts - practical challenges. Establishing a dialogue between university and civil society in terms of research and communication is therefore important. In this book, social innovation and urban development are taken as the starting point of research. The present work is a re-edition of original papers which have already been published in the Spanish-speaking world. It aims to demonstrate the actual basis of descriptive work on social innovation and territorial development in Latin America. One of the principle findings is that the basic concept of geographic innovation processes could be adapted to social innovations in the local administration of the metropolitan district of Quito, and that an innovation process could start, from a territorial point of view, in the Global South.

Author : Martin Bohle,Eduardo Marone
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030790288

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Geo-societal Narratives by Martin Bohle,Eduardo Marone Pdf

This book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences. Engaging various disciplines from humanities and social sciences, the book offers philosophical, cultural, economic, and geoscientific insights into how to contextualise geosciences in the node of Culture and Nature. The authors introduce two perspectives of societal geosciences, both informed by the lens of geoethics. Throughout the text core themes are explored; human agency, the integrity of place, geo-centricity, economy and climate justice, subjective sense-making and spirituality, nationalism, participatory empowerment and leadership in times of anthropogenic global change. The book concludes with a discussion on culture, education, or philosophy of science as aggregating concepts of seemingly disjunct narratives. The diverse intellectual homes of the authors offer a rich resource in terms of how they perceive human agency within the Earth system. Two geoscientific perspectives and fourteen narratives from various cultural, social and political viewpoints contextualise geosciences in the World(s) of the Anthropocene.

Author : Gordon Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Diffusion of innovations
ISBN : UOM:39015007067245

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Innovation Diffusion by Gordon Clark Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Geographical Sciences Committee,Committee on Identifying Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309389372

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Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Geographical Sciences Committee,Committee on Identifying Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences Pdf

The central purpose of all research is to create new knowledge. In the geographical sciences this is driven by a desire to create new knowledge about the relations between space, place, and the anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic features and processes of the Earth. But some research goes beyond these modest aims and creates new opportunities for further research, or affects the process of knowledge acquisition more broadly, or changes the way other researchers in a domain think about the world and go about their business. Due to its positive impacts, transformative research can be regarded as inherently having greater value than more conventional research, and funding agencies clearly regard transformative research as something to be encouraged and funded through special programs. Assessments of transformative research funding initiatives are few and provide a mixed picture of their effectiveness. The challenge is whether transformative research can be identified at the time it is proposed rather than after it has been conducted, communicated, and its influence on the discipline has become clear. Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences reviews how transformative research has emerged in the past, what its early markers were, and makes recommendations for how it can be nurtured in the future.

Author : Karl Donert,Rafael de Miguel González
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443858533

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Innovative Learning Geography in Europe by Karl Donert,Rafael de Miguel González Pdf

Opportunities for developing innovative approaches in teaching and learning geography have been rapidly increasing in recent years. This is in part because of the spread of new technologies that allow access to geographic information and geographic geo-media resources. These new tools offer broad access to information and open data sources. They have revolutionised the way in which teachers of geography can work with pupils and students. “Education for Digital Earth” is now possible. As such, the exclusive use of traditional approaches to the teaching of geography is no longer reasonable today. The European Commission-funded network initiative, digital-earth.eu, promotes innovation and best practices in the implementation of geo-media as a digital learning environment for school learning and teaching. This book, supported by EUROGEO, analyses the main challenges facing geographical education – curriculum, methodology, teacher education and training and geospatial technologies – and illustrates different examples of the use of geoinformation in geographical education in several European countries.

Author : Peter Kiefer,Haosheng Huang,Nico Van de Weghe,Martin Raubal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319714707

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Progress in Location Based Services 2018 by Peter Kiefer,Haosheng Huang,Nico Van de Weghe,Martin Raubal Pdf

This book gathers a selection of the best papers presented during the 14th International Conference on Location Based Services, which was held in Zurich (Switzerland) between the 15th and 17th January 2018. It presents a general overview of recent research activities related to location based services. Such activities have grown in importance over the past several years, especially those concerning outdoor/indoor positioning, smart environments, spatial modeling, personalization and context-awareness, cartographic communication, novel user interfaces, crowdsourcing, social media, big data analysis, usability and privacy.