GEOValue: Socio Economic Benefits

Presenting

GEOValue: an international community with focus on the value and socioeconomic impacts of geospatial information for decision making

Note the change of name from Socioeconomic Benefits Community to GEOValue to better represent our long term focus.

Vision: A community focusing on understanding benefits from environmental information for complex socioeconomic decisions.

Geospatial information contributes to decisions by societal decision-makers, business leaders and individuals. More effective use of information is essential as issues become increasingly complex and consequences are critical for future economic and social development.

To achieve this vision, our “community” includes a wide range of natural science, social, economic, management, and communication disciplines.

Our activities address:

  • Fostering collaboration across specialties and building communication and trust across social, economic and natural sciences.
  • Developing a shared database of experiences and lessons learned,
  • Offering a glossary of terms and reference material and list of experts;
  • Creating fora for community interactions, workshops and publications.
  • Assembling a compendium of case studies and analysis methodologies
  • New methods for qualitative and quantitative analyses

Join our LinkedIn site Socio-economic Benefits Community.

Articles

 

Socioeconomic status and language training: learning motivation

14 Nov 2023

In terms of language acquisition, previous research has abundantly proven the relationship between motivation and learning methods. However, few studies have explored the effect of socioeconomic position on second or foreign language learning. The level of socioeconomic status affects not only the motivation in language learning of adolescents but also adults. These research results are used in planning and organising classes in business language training on Website.

Link