03484nam 22006374a 450 991087697660332120230617041703.01-281-31265-797866113126570-470-70537-X0-470-99914-40-470-99915-2(CKB)1000000000408723(EBL)351421(OCoLC)437218675(SSID)ssj0000241518(PQKBManifestationID)11176281(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241518(PQKBWorkID)10298462(PQKB)10297257(MiAaPQ)EBC351421(EXLCZ)99100000000040872320030224d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScale and geographic inquiry[electronic resource] nature, society, and method /edited by Eric Sheppard and Robert B. McMasterMalden, MA Blackwell Pub.c20041 online resource (290 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-631-23070-X 0-631-23069-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Scale7 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; IndexThis 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 introductionGeographyMathematicsMultidimensional scalingGeographical perceptionGeographyMathematics.Multidimensional scaling.Geographical perception.910.01910/.01Sheppard Eric S897418McMaster Robert Brainerd897419Wiley Online Library (Servicio en línea)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910876976603321Scale and geographic inquiry2004971UNINA