Professor Zorica Nedovic-Budic PhD MA BA
Biography:
Zorica Nedović-Budić is Professor Chair of spatial planning and geographic information systems (GIS) in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. She received her PhD degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993, and spent 15 years as faculty at the University of Illinois. Dr. Nedovic-Budic's main areas of interest are in implementation of GIS in local government settings, GIS applications in urban planning, development of spatial data infrastructures (SDI) and evaluation of impact of GIS and SDI on local planning process and decisions. The focus of her planning studies is in comparative urban development and planning practice in post-communist and transitional societies, context-sensitive planning systems, international diffusion of planning ideas and methods and land use regulation and management of information and communication technologies (ICT). The primary sources of research funding have been the US National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, R.W. Johnson Foundation and Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Dr. Nedovic-Budic has published over 50 book chapters and articles in reputable journals in the areas of geospatial technologies, urban planning and public administration and co-edited a volume Urban Mosaic of Post-socialist Europe: Space, Policy and Institutions (Springer, 2006). She has served on the Board of Directors of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), and as the book reviews co-editor for the Journal of the American Planning Association. She is currently an editorial board member of URISA Journal, International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure, Territorium and International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development.