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Hillier, Amy – Journal of Social Work Education, 2007
Relative to other fields, social work has been slow to adopt geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool for research and practice. This paper argues that GIS can benefit social work by: (1) continuing and strengthening the social survey tradition; (2) providing a framework for understanding human behavior; (3) identifying community needs and…
Descriptors: Social Work, Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, Surveys