Debates and dialogues

Arguments, debates, and dialogues: the GIS–social theory debate and the concern for alternatives

In recent years GIS practitioners have begun to argue for the importance of building a more flexible, open, and theoretical science of geographic information systems and geographic information – a geographic information science (Goodchild 1992, 1993, 1995; Openshaw 1991, 1992, 1996; Wright et al 1997). This theoretical turn has emerged as GIS itself has changed from an enterprise involving the ...

Knowledge Representation and Mediation for Transdisciplinary Frameworks: Tools to Inform Debates, Dialogues & Deliberations

In this paper we address the challenges of transdisciplinary practice and quality assurance by extended peer review, in terms of knowledge co-production, mediation and representation. Spaces for the articulation of plural narratives are explored, including the opportunity to deploy new information technologies. The TIDDD (tools to inform debates, dialogues & deliberations) is introduced in the ...

DEBATES Health and sustainability

In the present article, we explore how sustainable development strategies and health promotion strategies can be bridged. The concept of the ‘duality of structure’ is taken as our starting point for understanding the linkages between health promotion and sustainable development, and for uncovering the structural properties or conditions which either enable or constrain sustainable public health...

Debates and Surveys

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