Bowling Alone is a great book about social capital, a very important concept for public health. This is a good read.
On another question (see .jpg attachments)
When I use the adjacency tool a 1st order band results in attachment 1 m2005001. This is a "queen" adjacency. Anything with an edge or a node.
But the feature that generates the dataview with the distances to centroidfs and IDs of adjacent polygons generates m2005002, in other words a "rook" adjacency table. Just polygons that share an edge.
Am I missing something ... is there a way to generate the "queen" adjacency table or does any one have GISDK code to generate a table of edges and nodes shared and if possible the centroid distances?
It would be useful to have a choice of rook or queen. Both are useful in different statistical modeling applications.
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Richard E. Hoskins, PhD MPH
Faculdad Salud Publica
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Av Honorio Delgado No 430
Lima 31, Perú
Richard E. Hoskins, PhD MPH
Faculdad Salud Publica
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Av Honorio Delgado No 430
Lima 31, Perú
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Hi Bob.Social Capital is a concept used mainly by sociologists and other researchers working on social equity, poverty, civil engagement and similar issues to refer to a social group´s potential to achieve mutual benefits through cooperative meansThe following paper is cosnidered to be the one that pushed the concept up into the poltical and research agenda a few years ago: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/assoc/bowling.htmlIn Europe it has been used for shaping political decissions on social welfare, health and housing for more a decade now, specially inthe UK. I understand that the push is strong in the US too.Non for profit organizations are using it as an indicator for focussing their efforts and evaluating their programs.The concept includes a number of geographic dimensions, but, as far as I am aware of, these dimensions have not been fully operationalized yet. Mapping and quantification of social capital are still in their infancy. There is a field wide open for research on (and opportunities for) GIS applications here.Cheers,Armando
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Subject: Re: [Maptitude] Social Capital and Maptitude
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Date: Tue, August 09, 2005 10:52 am
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On 1 Aug 2005 at 19:05, Armando Scalise wrote:
> Has anyone on this list been involved in applying GIS, and Mpatitude
> in particular, to research on social capital?
>
What is "Social capital?"
Bob
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