Enlisting SDI for Urban Planning in India: Local Practices in the Case of Slum Declaration

Christine Richter, Gianluca Miscione, Rahul De, Karin Pfeffer

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Abstract

Initiatives to develop spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have been taken up since the early 1990s in many countries around the world, including India. However, the spirit of global SDI convergence that dominated the 2009 GSDI conference is more of an aim for the future than an empirically grounded phenomenon. Whether or how “the walls of SDI are coming down” (Van Loenen, Besemer, and Zevenbergen 2009, pp. 1-2) remains to be seen. It is also too soon to conclude that these initiatives automatically and unequivocally lead to wider societal bene’ts.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpatial Data Infrastructures in Context North and South
EditorsZorica Nedovic-Budic, Joep Crompvoets, Yola Georgiadou
Place of PublicationBoca Raton
PublisherCRC Press (Taylor & Francis)
Pages157-179
Number of pages228
ISBN (Electronic)978-0-4290-9373-9
ISBN (Print)978-1-4398-2802-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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