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Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method

Eric Sheppard (Editor), Robert B. McMaster (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-99915-8
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288 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.