Acknowledgements

A number of people have provided constructive advice concerning the contents of this book and/or supplied the example data sets and unpublished material we have used throughout. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mark Blades, Paul Boyle, Mike Bratt, Chris Chatfield, John Coshall, Nick Cox, Robin Flowerdew, Reg Golledge, Alastair Grant, Ian Gregory, Keith Halfacree, Robin Haynes, Phil Hubbard, Dan Jacobson, Nuala Johnson, Iain Lake, David Livingstone, Paul Longley, Andrew Lovett, David Mark, Dave Martin, Victor Mesev, Stan Openshaw, Julian Parfitt, Charlie Richards, Steve Royle, Ian Shuttleworth, John Spain, Bob Taft, Chris Taylor, Nick Williams, Peter Williams, Heather Winlow, Neil Wrigley, and the Cartographic Unit in the School of Geosciences, The Queen's University of Belfast, for the preparation of the figures; Mike Wood for the idea behind Figures 6.5/6.6.

The computer program GASP, used in Chapter 6, was developed and programmed by Mike Bratt and Rob Kitchin. We are grateful to Mike for his time and effort. We would also like to acknowledge the work and patience of Matthew Smith and Shuet-Kei Cheung at AWL, and Sally Wilkinson for commissioning the book.

This book was written while both authors were lecturers at the School of Geosciences, Queen's University of Belfast.

Rob Kitchin and Nick Tate

Belfast, September 1998

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