Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method by Eric Sheppard and Robert B. McMaster
English | January 26, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0631230696 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | January 26, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0631230696 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.