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1 August 2005 Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS: Case Study Cambodia
Taylor Owen, Olav Slaymaker
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Abstract

A new methodology for measuring human security is presented. The three stages of the methodology are: i) threat assessment, ii) data collection and organization, and iii) data visualization and analysis, using Geographic Information Systems. Results from a Cambodia case study are highlighted. The United Nations Development Program's notion of human security, which gives equal weight to economic, health, food, political, personal, and environmental factors, is used. Country-specific threats in each category are determined, and local, spatially referenced data are collected. In this paper, poverty, dengue fever, and tuberculosis are used as examples of the analytic process. Regions of Cambodia exposed to all three of these threats (“hot spots”) are located, and spatial correlation between poverty, dengue fever, and tuberculosis is calculated. The methodology i) advances a broad concept of human security, ii) will potentially assist policy and decision makers, and iii) identifies research questions that cannot be resolved using single-sector analysis.

Taylor Owen and Olav Slaymaker "Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS: Case Study Cambodia," AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 34(6), 445-449, (1 August 2005). https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447-34.6.445
Received: 28 January 2004; Accepted: 1 June 2004; Published: 1 August 2005
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