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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 910.01; 910/.01
• Soggetto topico: Geography - Mathematics; Multidimensional scaling; Geographical perception
• Altri autori: SheppardEric S McMasterRobert Brainerd
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Scale and geographic inquiry
• ISBN: 1-281-31265-7; 9786611312657; 0-470-70537-X; 0-470-99914-4; 0-470-99915-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996201974303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno