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Contouring Human Development - Methods and Applications Using an Indian District as Case Study (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Contouring Human Development - Methods and Applications Using an Indian District as Case Study (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book acquaints readers with a range of techniques to help them
effectively identify, record, map, analyze and report on patterns
in various dimensions of human development (HD) with spatial scales
down to the village level. It is impossible to capture HD at the
local and global scale with only a single index, because
differences in HD at the international scale are caused by
'general' factors, whereas local-scale differences are influenced
by 'specific' factors. This book offers a variety of methods for
scientifically mapping HD at any spatial scale. It covers how to
rationally select variables; how to test the models; how to
validate the results, and how to analyze them. For this purpose, it
employs a case study on an Indian district. The socio-economic
factors regulating the patterns of HD are now more complex than
they were only a few decades ago, making it essential to
incorporate newer models in order to successfully 'replicate' the
real-world situation. Accordingly, the book offers essential
methodological tools & techniques for mapping HD. It sheds new
light on a handful of statistical multivariate analysis and machine
learning algorithms that are rarely used in the social sciences
when dealing with HD, yet have sound mathematical and statistical
bases. These techniques can be successfully used for predictive
analysis in the earth & natural sciences, decision sciences and
management disciplines, and are equally effective in terms of
capturing, predicting and projecting the composite HD 'landscape.'
This book will especially benefit two groups of readers: firstly,
HD practitioners who want to find out 'why some areas are doing
better than others' by exploring the complex interactions of
spatially linked variables with different HD parameters. And
secondly, practitioners in other branches of the social sciences
who are not concerned with HD but are looking for 'hands-on
training' with techniques they can apply in their respective field
of spatial investigations.
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