Geographic Information Systems to Spatial Data Infrastructures-A Global Perspective

Part I Geographic Information Systems: Introduction
Chapter 1 Urban Planning and Geographic Information Systems
Ian Masser and Henk Ottens
Theory
Chapter 2 The Regional Research Laboratory Initiative: An Overview
Ian Masser
Chapter 3 Data Integration Research: Overview and Future Prospects
Ian Masser
Chapter 4 Brave New GIS Worlds
Michael Wegener and Ian Masser
Chapter 5 Geographic Information: A Resource, a Commodity, an Asset or an Infrastructure?
Robert Barr and Ian Masser
Practice
Chapter 6 The Development of Geographic Information Systems in Britain: The Chorley Report in Perspective
Ian Masser
Chapter 7 The Impact of GIS on Local Government in Great Britain
Ian Masser and Heather Campbell
Chapter 8 Information Sharing and the Implementation of GIS: Some Key Issues
Ian Masser and Heather Campbell
Chapter 9 The Diffusion of GIS in Local Government in Europe
Ian Masser and Massimo Craglia
Part II Spatial Data Infrastructures: Introduction
Chapter 10 Managing Our Urban Future: The Role of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
Ian Masser
Theory
Chapter 11 All Shapes and Sizes: The First Generation of National Spatial Data Infrastructures
Ian Masser
Chapter 12 The Future of Spatial Data Infrastructures
Ian Masser
Chapter 13 What’s Special about SDI-Related Research?
Ian Masser
Chapter 14 Changing Notions of a Spatial Data Infrastructure
Ian Masser
Practice
Chapter 15 A European Policy Framework for Geographic Information
Massimo Craglia and Ian Masser
Chapter 16 Reflections on the Indian National Spatial Data Infrastructure 
Ian Masser
Chapter 17 Geographic Information and the Enlargement of the European Union: Four National Case Studies
Massimo Craglia and Ian Masser
Chapter 18 Operational SDIs: The Subnational Dimension in the European Context
Joachim Rix, Swetlana Fast and Ian Masser
Chapter 19 Learning from INSPIRE
Ian Masser and Joep Crompvoets