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. The editors place...

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Other Authors: Sheppard, Eric S., McMaster, Robert Brainerd
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2004.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Fractals and scale in environmental assessment and monitoring / Nina Siu-Ngan Lam
  • Population and environment interactions : spatial considerations in landscape characterization and modeling / Stephen J. Walsh [and others]
  • Crossing the divide : linking global and local scales in human-environment systems / William E. Easterling and Colin Polsky
  • Independence, contingency, and scale linkage in physical geography / Jonathan D. Phillips
  • Embedded scales in biogeography / Susy S. Ziegler, Gary M. Pereira, Dwight A. Brown
  • Scaled geographies : nature, place, and the politics of scale / Erik Swyngedouw
  • Scales of cybergeography / Michael F. Goodchild
  • A long way from home : domesticating the social production of scale / Sallie Marston
  • Scale bending and the fate of the national / Neil Smith
  • Is there a Europe of cities? World cities and the limitations of geographical scale analyses / Peter J. Taylor
  • The politics of scale and networks of spatial connectivity : transnational interurban networks and the rescaling of political governance in Europe / Helga Leitner
  • Scale and geographic inquiry : contrasts, intersections, and boundaries / Eric Sheppard and Robert B. McMaster.