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8 Ιαν 2023 · Geographic information systems offer analytical methods and tools to explore various spatial concepts and their impact on the functioning of people with disabilities.
Geography of disability [1] is a multi-disciplinary branch of human geography which studies the experiences of people with disabilities and the extent to which disability in a population can be influenced by its geographical location.
Geographies of disability investigate the relationships between the geographical environment and complex and fluid interactions with the nature of an individual’s impairment. The role of society is explored as a mechanism for including or marginalizing people with disabilities.
2 Δεκ 2020 · The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed every December 3rd, and OpenStreetMap marks this day by saying “Our aim is to be the best world map for accessibility”. OpenStreetMap has long been a resource to map and share open data on features related to disabilities.
Increasingly, geographers are turning their attention to, and actively engaging in, issues of disability. Accompanying this upturn in empirical studies has been a fierce debate centring on differences in underlying ideology, conceptions of disability and methodological approaches.
26 Φεβ 2013 · Geographies of disability investigate the relationships between the geographical environment and complex and fluid interactions with the nature of an individual’s impairment. The role of society is explored as a mechanism for including or marginalizing people with disabilities.
Geographies of disability explore how experi-ences of disability are shaped and co-produced by and through interactions between people with mind/body differences and socio-spatial factors. Disability is eminently spatial. How space is organized, socially, physically, and culturally, has huge impacts on people living with “disabilities.”
