Eric Sheppard / Robert B Mcmaster (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Scale and Geographic Inquiry

Nature, Society, and Method

Ed. by Eric Sheppard and Robert B. McMaster

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780631230700
• ISBN-10: 063123070X
• Artikelnr.: 13733664

Rezensionen

"...engages incisively with what consideration of scale canoffer to a wide range of crucial social, physical, and cartographicissues - from environmental monitoring to urban development- and provides an essential starting point in terms of theuses and meanings of the concept." John Agnew, University ofCalifornia Los Angeles

"This volume is both timely and welcome. As society faces a newworld order that reflects the increasing tension and simultaneitybetween local and global forces, it is essential to lay thefoundations toward a comprehensive 'theory of scale'.This volume, through its integration and contemplation of disparateideas drawn from the spectrum of geographical perspectives, is acrucial first step toward that grand agenda." Bernie Bauer,University of Southern California

"This is a fascinating book...it covers an intimidating array ofsubjects but shows how one aspect - scale - can affect all of themin surprisingly similar ways. The depth and breadth of coveragemakes the text an invaluable one." Dr Paul Ganderton, TeachingEcology News.

"This book is important reading for all geographers based on itscatholic content and because it provides a lens into our diversediscipline. Few edited collections contain such consistently strongchapters. Scale and Geographic Enquiry is recommended forall geographers, especially graduate students and theirinstructors." The Geographical Journal