Scale and geographic inquiry nature, society, and method

This book is the first contemporary book to compare and integrate the various ways geographers think about and use scale across the spectrum of the discipline and includes state-of-the-art contributions by authoritative human geographers, physical geographers and GIS specialists. Provides a state of...

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Autor Corporativo: Wiley Online Library (Servicio en línea) (-)
Otros Autores: Sheppard, Eric S. (-), McMaster, Robert Brainerd
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub c2004.
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  • Scale and Geographic Inquiry; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Scale and Geographic Inquiry; 1 Fractals and Scale in Environmental Assessment and Monitoring; 2 Population and Environment Interactions: Spatial Considerations in Landscape Characterization and Modeling; 3 Crossing the Divide: Linking Global and Local Scales in Human-Environment Systems; 4 Independence, Contingency, and Scale Linkage in Physical Geography; 5 Embedded Scales in Biogeography; 6 Scaled Geographies: Nature, Place, and the Politics of Scale
  • 7 Scales of Cybergeography8 A Long Way from Home: Domesticating the Social Production of Scale; 9 Scale Bending and the Fate of the National; 10 Is There a Europe of Cities? World Cities and the Limitations of Geographical Scale Analyses; 11 The Politics of Scale and Networks of Spatial Connectivity: Transnational Interurban Networks and the Rescaling of Political Governance in Europe; 12 Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Contrasts, Intersections, and Boundaries; Index