All Outputs (4)

Participatory GIS: a people's GIS? (2007)
Journal Article
Dunn, C. (2007). Participatory GIS: a people's GIS?. Progress in Human Geography, 31(5), 616-637. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132507081493

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to indigenous geographical knowledge as well as to `official' spatial data. By incorporating various forms of community participation these newer framings of Geogr... Read More about Participatory GIS: a people's GIS?.

Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires' disease (2007)
Journal Article
Dunn, C., Bhopal, R., Cockings, S., Walker, D., Rowlingson, B., & Diggle, P. (2007). Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires' disease. Health & Place, 13(3), 677-690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.10.003

Recent years have witnessed important advances in the analysis of spatially referenced health data. This paper uses GIS and point pattern modelling to address previously unanswered questions regarding the spatial epidemiology of Legionnaires’ disease... Read More about Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires' disease.

Geographic variation and localised clustering of congenital anomalies in Great Britain (2007)
Journal Article
Armstrong, B., Dolk, H., Pattenden, S., Vrijheid, M., Loane, M., Rankin, J., …Wellesley, D. (2007). Geographic variation and localised clustering of congenital anomalies in Great Britain. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 4, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-4-14

Background: Environmental pollution as a cause of congenital anomalies is sometimes suspected because of clustering of anomalies in areas of higher exposure. This highlights questions around spatial heterogeneity (clustering) in congenital anomaly ra... Read More about Geographic variation and localised clustering of congenital anomalies in Great Britain.

Environmental irony: summoning death in Bangladesh (2007)
Journal Article
Atkins, P., Hassan, M., & Dunn, C. (2007). Environmental irony: summoning death in Bangladesh. Environment and Planning A, 39(11), 2699-2714. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38123

The arsenic crisis that affects at least thirty million water consumers in Bangladesh has been called the world’s greatest ever environmental health disaster. Although the problem and the potential solutions have been presented confidently in the med... Read More about Environmental irony: summoning death in Bangladesh.