Eric Sheppard & Robert B. McMaster 
Scale and Geographic Inquiry [PDF ebook] 
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.

* * 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.

Inhoudsopgave

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Introduction: Scale And Geographic Inquiry: Robert B. Mcmaster
And Eric Sheppard (University Of Minnesota, University Of
Minnesota).

1. Fractals And Scale In Environmental Assessment And
Monitoring: Nina Siu-Ngan Lam (Louisiana State University).

2. Population And Environment Interactions: Spatial
Considerations In Landscape Characterization And Modeling: Stephen
J. Walsh, Kelley A. Crews-Meyer, Thomas W. Crawford, William F.
Welsh (University Of North Carolina, University Of Texas,
Gettysburg College, University Of North Carolina).

3 Crossing The Divide: Linking Global And Local Scales In
Human-Environment Systems: William E. Easterling And Colin Polsky
(Penn State University, Harvard University).

4. Independence, Contingency, And Scale Linkage In Physical
Geography: Jonathan D. Phillips (University Of Kentucky).

5. Embedded Scales In Biogeography: Susy S. Ziegler, Gary M.
Pereira, Dwight A. Brown (All At University Of Minnesota).

6. Scaled Geographies: Nature, Place, And The Contested Politics
Of Scale: Erik Swyndegouw (University Of Oxford).

7. Scales Of Cybergeography: Michael F. Goodchild (University Of
California).

8. A Long Way From Home: Domesticating The Social Production Of
Scale: Sallie Marston (University Of Arizona).

9. Scale Bending And The Fate Of The National: Neil Smith (City
University Of New York).

10. Is There A Europe Of Cities? Peter Taylor (Loughborough
University).

11. The Politics Of Scale And Networks Of Spatial Connectivity:
Transnational Interurban Networks And Rescaling Of Political
Governance In Europe: Helga Leitner (University Of Minnesota).

12. Scale And Geographic Inquiry: Contrasts, Intersections, And
Boundaries: Robert B. Mcmaster And Eric Sheppard (University Of
Minnesota, University Of Minnesota).

Index.

Over de 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. Mc Master 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.