A new policy‐related measure of population dispersal and sparsity using GIS |
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| Authors: | Professor S Openshaw Mike Coombes |
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| Institution: | Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies , University of Newcastle upon Tyne , |
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| Abstract: | Policy indicators applied at a national scale can have considerable financial impact for resource allocations to individual counties, especially if there are extreme local factors. This article develops arid explores a new measure of population dispersal and sparsity and discusses the impact of this indicator in a variety of locations, by using GIS techniques. |
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| Keywords: | Geographic information systems Population dispersal Sparsity Policy indicators |
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