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George Mason UniversityCollege of Health and Human Services

Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics

Health Policy Research

Presentations & Publications
Nigel Waters

Chapters in Books

Waters, N.M. 2006. Network and Nodal Indices: Measures of Complexity and Redundancy: A Review. Spatial Dynamics, Network and Modelling, edited by Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA.

Waters, N.M., 2005. Transportation GIS: GIS-T, Chapter 59 in Geographical Information Systems, Second Edition, Abridged, edited by Longley, P.A., Goodchild, M.F., Maguire, D.J. and Rhind, D.W.; Wiley, New York.

Li, K., Waters, N.M., 2005. Transportation Networks, Case-Based Reasoning and Traffic Collision Analysis: A Methodology for the 21st Century, Chapter 4 in Methods and Models in Transport and Telecommunications, edited by Reggiani, A., Schintler, L. A.; Springer, New York.

Articles in refereed journals

Patel, A., Waters, N. M. and Ghali, W., in press. Determining geographic areas and populations with timely access to cardiac catheterization facilities for acute myocardial infarction care in Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Health Geographics, 6 (47):   http://ij-healthgeographics.com/content/pdf/1476-072x-6-47.pdf

Sun, H., Forsythe, W. K. and Waters, N. M. 2007. Modelling Urban Land Use Change and Urban Sprawl: Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Networks and Spatial Economics, vol. 7, #4, pp. 353-376. http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/n33t5888j64p1l06/fulltext.pdf

Forsythe, W. K. and Waters, N. M., 2006. The Utilization of Image Texture Measures in Urban Change Detection. Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation, vol. 4, pp. 287-296.

Alexander, S.M., Waters, N.M. and Paquet, P. C. 2005. Traffic Volume and Highway Permeability for a Mammalian Community in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The Canadian Geographer, vol. 49, (4), pp. 321-331.

Tang, K.X., Waters, N.M., 2005. The Internet, GIS and Public Participation in Transportation Planning, Progress in Planning, 64 (1):1-62.

Bow, J.D., N.M. Waters, P.D. Faris, J.E. Seidel, P.D. Galbraith, M.L. Knudston, W. A. Ghali, and the APPROACH Investigators, 2004. Accuracy of City Postal Code Coordinates as a Proxy for Location of Residence, International Journal of Health Geographics, 3(5): 1-9.

Seidel, J.E., W.A. Ghali, P.D. Faris, J.D. Bow, N.M. Waters, M.M. Graham, P.D. Galbraith, L.B. Mitchell, and M.L. Knudston, 2004. Geographical Location of Residence and Uniformity of Access to Cardiac Revascularization Services after Catheterization. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 20(5): 517-523.

Articles in conference proceedings and other publications

van Wyngaarden, R. and Waters, N. M. 2007. An Unfinished Revolution: Gaining Perspective on the Future of GIS. Cover article for GeoWorld, vol. 20, #9, pp. 22-25.

Moon, S-H. and Waters, N.M., 2004. Solving the City of Calgary High School Location Problem for the Year 2033, Transportation Revolutions, Calgary, Alberta, Proceedings of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum (2): 464-478
Oral presentations

McConnell, S., Hansen, C. and Waters, N. M. 2005. Mapping the Media in the Americas: An Innovative Application of GIS. Paper presented to the Eighth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas, New York City, June 27-July 1, 2005. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/8unrccaIP36.pdf