Geospatial Analysis Platform and tools: supporting planning and decision making across scales, borders, sectors and disciplines

Abstract

The paper will (1) build an argument for the importance and challenges of connecting across scales and borders and between sectors, (2) provide a brief overview of GAP2 in terms of its geo-spatial analysis platform, the way in which it facilitates and provides disaggregation of data, as well as the accompanying sets of tools and methodologies, (3) illustrate some of the innovative applications and value thereof in enabling inter-regional and across scale analyses, pattern recognition and synthesis of regional dynamics and connections in the South African context, and (4) suggest some possibilities for utilisation in the broader Southern African context