Knowledge Production in Urban Governance Systems through Qualitative Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

Environment and Urbanization Asia

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-250

  Pfeffer, Karin ^a   Martinez, Javier ^a   Baud, Isa ^b   Sridharan, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE   (India)

Author keywords

India; knowledge types; participation; qualitative GIS; tacit knowledge; urban governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996250024     PISSN: 09754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097542531100200207     Document Type: Article

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