Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method - Couverture rigide

 
9780631230694: Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method
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ISBN 10 : 0631230696 ISBN 13 : 9780631230694
Editeur : *Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

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 and conclusion, by the editors, explores the common ground.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eric Sheppard is Fesler-Lampert Professor in Geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the co-author and editor of a number of books, including A Companion to Economic Geography (Blackwell, 2001) and Reading Economic Geography (Blackwell, 2003), and of over 80 scholarly articles. His current research interests include spatiality and political economy, environmental justice, critical GIS and interurban policy and activist networks.Robert B. McMaster is Professor of Geography and Associate Dean for Planning in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. His areas of research include multiple scale databases and cartographic generalization, GIS and society, including environmental risk assessment and public participation GIS (PPGIS), and the history of US academic cartography. From 1990 to 1996, he served as editor of Cartography and Geographic Information Science, and is currently a Vice President of the International Cartographic Association.

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Éditeur
*Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0631230696
ISBN 13 
9780631230694
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
289
Éditeur
Sheppard Eric, McMaster Robert B.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  063123070X ISBN 13 :  9780631230700
Editeur : John Wiley & Sons, 2004
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