Adrijana Car – Thomas Jekel – Josef Strobl – Gerald Griesebner (Eds.)
GI_Forum 2018, Volume 6, Issue 1
Journal for Geographic Information Science
Adebola Olaoluwa Hassan,
Lorenz Wendt,
Barbara Riedler
S. 263 - 273
doi:
10.1553/giscience2018_01_s263
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
doi:
10.1553/giscience2018_01_s263
Abstract:
Provision of camp facilities for refugees is very important for their physical, mental and social wellbeing. Also of importance is ease of access to these facilities by refugees. Information on where to site camp facilities thus becomes crucial to the humanitarian organizations which often provide the facilities. The Sphere Project suggests standards to manage refugee camps, one of which is accessibility to camp facilities in terms of walking distance. In view of this, this paper presents the development of an automated tool for the spatial analysis of refugee camps using GIS guided by Sphere standards. The tool adopts two methods for analysing access to camp facilities, looking at the regular buffer/service area and the network buffer/service area. The study found both methods effective, although the latter provided additional approaches and consequently more detailed information to aid facility-siting decisions by humanitarian bodies for refugee camps.
buffer, network, accessibility, humanitarian organizations
Published Online:
2018/07/02 07:33:18
Document Date:
2018/06/22 10:22:00
Object Identifier:
0xc1aa5572 0x00390ce4
Rights:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
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