Viewpoint: Friendly hippos, cannibals and reflections on foreign technology: Plotting a course for GIS in the countries of the South

Third World Planning Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Fincham, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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EID: 0002424139     PISSN: 01427849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/twpr.21.2.185725x355p04n25     Document Type: Review

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