Information Systems for Regional Development Planning: A State-of-the-Art Survey

In this paper the author presents a state-of-the-art review of information systems for regional development planning. Various aspects and tools of such information systems are discussed. Next, an international comparison of spatial planning-systems and spatial information-systems in six countries is made by means of a systematic inventory and typology of attributes of these information systems. The author concludes that regional information-systems are in general not very well developed and suggests various ways for improving the current situation.

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