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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876976603321

Titolo

Scale and geographic inquiry [[electronic resource] ] : nature, society, and method / / edited by Eric Sheppard and Robert B. McMaster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2004

ISBN

1-281-31265-7

9786611312657

0-470-70537-X

0-470-99914-4

0-470-99915-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SheppardEric S

McMasterRobert Brainerd

Disciplina

910.01

910/.01

Soggetti

Geography - Mathematics

Multidimensional scaling

Geographical perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 the art survey of how geographers think about scale. Brings together recent interest in scale in human and physical geography, as well as geographic information science Places competing concepts of scale side by side in order to compare them. The introduction