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Author : Surekha Pandit Bapat
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180692826
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Spatial Efficiency In Geography written by Surekha Pandit Bapat and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. J. Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000879836
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Spatial Structures written by R. J. Johnston and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973, this book synthesizes the mass of material into an introduction to the study of spatial systems. Geographic literature of the time stressed the influence of the distance between places on both location decision-making and movement patterns, arguing that the spatial system is an ordered set of interacting locations. This system is created by human decisions, influenced by the distance factor, and the system’s morphology constrains further activities, including those which would alter it. Spatial Structures outlines the development of such systems, their present organization, and the ways in which they are changing. These themes are dealt with in three main chapters which focus on different spatial scales – the individual city, the nation state and the international system, within a simple classification of spatially organized activities.
Author : Yorgos Papageorgiou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351035002
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Isolated City State written by Yorgos Papageorgiou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, The Isolated City State asks the questions, why have the world’s major cities experienced explosive growth? Why does the socio-economic status in North America roughly increase with distance from the city centre, while the socio-economic status in South America roughly decreases? What are the reasons behind the sudden decline of some large, central cities? Will recovery if it happens be equally rapid? Generally, to understand the phenomenon, simplifications are made which make it impossible to understand other phenomena. This major study synthesises a vast amount of theorising and research to provide answers to the major questions of urban geography.
Author : Beng Chin Ooi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540534747
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Information Systems written by Beng Chin Ooi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1990-11-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very Good,No Highlights or Markup,all pages are intact.
Author : Kevin R. Cox
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462512917
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Making Human Geography written by Kevin R. Cox and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book cogently examines how human geography has developed from a field with limited self-awareness regarding method and theory to the vibrant study of society and space that it is today. Kevin R. Cox provides an interpretive, critical perspective on Anglo-American geographic thought in the 20th and 21st centuries. He probes the impact of the spatial-quantitative revolution and geography's engagement with other social sciences, particularly in social theory. Key concepts and theories in the field are explained and illustrated with instructive research examples. Cox explores both how new approaches to human geography get constructed and what each school of thought has contributed to understanding the world in which we live.
Author : Leslie Curry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429764456
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Random Spatial Economy and its Evolution written by Leslie Curry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume, spanning a lifetime's research, is a highly innovative first attempt at a consistent theoretical approach to the elements, structures and dynamics of the geography of agents, settlements and trade. Cause and effect are replaced by chance within constraints. Populations are substituted for unreal representative individuals, variability for uniformity, probabilistic process for unique history. Ignorance is a major factor in interpersonal and inter-areal commercial relations so that the focus is on flows of information and their effects on the efficiency of the economy or, alternatively, on changes in its information content. Recent work on spatial arrangements in many physical and social sciences is incorporated but always interpreted from an overriding geographical viewpoint. Key concepts are locational potential, distance friction, mobility, diffusion, spatial pattern and texture, adaptability, efficiency, spatial interaction and dependence. Analytic methods include autocovariance and transfer functions, areal special densities and entropy. Various forms of self-organization of economic spatial patterns are examined.
Author : James A. Tyner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351887203
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space written by James A. Tyner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, this book argues whether the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but also terracide - the erasure of space. In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges of an indigenous pre-colonial Khmer society, a French colonialism and American intervention. The Khmer Rouge, however, were not content with retaining the past inscriptions of previous modes of production and spatial practices. Instead, they attempted to erase time and space to create their own utopian vision of a communal society. The Khmer Rouge's erasing and reshaping of space was thus part of a consistent sacrifice of Cambodia and its people - a brutal justification for the killing of a country and the birth of a new place, Democratic Kampuchea. While focusing on Cambodia, the book provides a clearer geographic understanding to genocide in general and insights into the importance of spatial factors in geopolitical conflict.
Author : Yemi Adewoyin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031412680
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Health and Medical Geography in Africa written by Yemi Adewoyin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume focuses on the evolution and current state of the sub-discipline of health and medical geography in Africa. It encompasses theoretical and methodological issues as well as the current teaching and research capacities of institutions offering programs in health and medical geography in Africa. Further, the book will review the level of adoption of the sub-discipline in State policies and practice and also provide practical illustrations, with case studies, of how studies in the sub-discipline are central to the actualization of Africa's development agenda. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between health and development. Through its direct and indirect impacts on labor productivity, population health and wellbeing matter for the social and economic development of households and national economies. Yet, health is not uniform in space. And so is development. Comparatively on many health and development indicators, Africa fairs poorly. The variation in health may present as differences in the occurrence and spread of diseases, the distribution of and access to healthcare facilities, and/or in health outcomes among the population. Reasons for these variations range from biology to the population’s levels of exposure and susceptibility to elements in their environment, including the social interactions taking place within the environment. The field of health and medical geography focuses on the spatial patterns and processes underlying these variations and provides pathways for understanding and addressing them. More specifically, the sub-discipline of health and medical geography focuses on, among others, how places (their characteristics and processes that go on in them) and environmental factors underlie and/or influence disease patterns, exposure and susceptibility to diseases, health variations, health behavior, health outcomes, and the provision of and access to healthcare services. This volume documents perspectives and applications in health and medical geography in Africa for academics, students, health practitioners, and development policymakers.
Author : Edward Relph
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317373669
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography written by Edward Relph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1981, explores why it is that the modern built environment, while successfully providing material comfort and technical efficiency, none the less breeds despair and depression rather than inspires hope and commitment. The source of this paradox, where material benefits appear to have been gained only at the expense of intangible values and qualities is found in humanism, the persistent and powerful belief that all problems can be solved through the use of human reason. But humanism has become increasingly confused, rationalistic, callously devoted to efficiency, and authoritarian. These confusions and contradictions, together with the anti-nature stance of humanism and its failure to teach humane behaviour, lead the author to conclude that humanism is best rejected. Such rejection does not advocate the inhuman and anti-human, but requires instead a return to the ‘humility’ that lies at the origin of humanism – a respect for objects, creatures, environments and people. This ‘environmental humility’ is explored in the context of individuality of settings, ways of seeing landscapes, appropriation and ways of building places. This title will be of interest to students of human geography.
Author : Alan G. Phipps
Publisher : University of Windsor
ISBN 13 : 0920233775
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Research Advances in Behavioral, Economic and Health Geography Inspired by Gerard Rushton written by Alan G. Phipps and published by University of Windsor. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a festschrift including nine scientific papers and six abstracts of papers written by Dr. Gerard Rushton or his former graduate students and colleagues to celebrate his retirement from teaching at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. The festschrift begins with Rushton’s own review of his research advances in Behavioral Geography, Economic Geography and Health Geography that coincide with three recurring phases of his academic career during 45 years of teaching at the University of Iowa. Following this, each paper by a former student or colleague reviews the special personal and academic contributions of Rushton to him or her in one of those research areas. Each paper then proceeds to review the author’s (or authors’) contributions to scientific theory and empirical analysis that he or she (or they) has(ve) subsequently advanced or evolved from Rushton’s original contributions. These papers are scientific contributions of interest to an academic readership, as opposed to personal or anecdotal recollections.
Author : Jean-Claude Thill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 364237896X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling in Urban and Regional Systems written by Jean-Claude Thill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in Geographic Information Science & Technologies, Location Modeling, and Spatial Analysis of Urban and Regional Systems. The contributions emphasize methodological innovations or substantive breakthroughs on many facets of the socio-economic and environmental reality of urban and regional contexts.
Author : Yosoon Choi
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039364898
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Recent Advances in Geographic Information System for Earth Sciences written by Yosoon Choi and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic information systems (GISs) have played a vital role in Earth sciences by providing a powerful means of observing the world and various tools for solving complex problems. The scientific community has used GISs to reveal fascinating details about the Earth and other planets. This book on recent advances in GIS for Earth sciences includes 12 publications from esteemed research groups worldwide. The research and review papers in this book belong to the following broad categories: Earth science informatics (geoinformatics), mining, hydrology, natural hazards, and society.
Author : Wayne Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351148672
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Spatial Aspects of Environmental Policy written by Wayne Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a recent explosion of research incorporating a spatial dimension in environmental and natural resource economics, where the spatial aspects of human behaviour or the natural environment make a crucial difference in the analysis and policy response to the problem. Much of this research has been driven by the growing availability of spatially explicit social science data and the development of tools and methodological advances to use these data. Collected in this volume are 24 key articles considering the reasons for spatial variation in policies, due to either efficiency or equity considerations, and the consequences of that spatial variation for both environmental and economic outcomes. These articles demonstrate that the failure to address spatial issues in the analysis can create two problems: (1) the analysis provides a poor basis for predicting actual behaviour that is specifically based upon spatial considerations, and (2) the analysis fails to provide a basis for designing spatially targeted policies that could lead to more efficient outcomes.
Author : S. Gale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400993943
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Philosophy in Geography written by S. Gale and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any edited volume most credit is due to the individual authors. The present case is no exception and we as editors have done little apart from serving as coordinators for a group of friends and colleagues. For once, the responsi bilities are shared. We feel that the collection gives a fair representation of the activities at the frontier of human geography in North America. Whether these premonitions will be further substantiated is of course to be seen. In the meantime, we take refuge in Vico's saying that "doctrines must take their beginning from that of the matter of which they treat". And yet we also know that new treatments never lead to fmal ends, but rather to new doctrines and to new beginnings. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge those publishers and authors who have given permission to reprint copyrighted materials: Association of American Geographers for Leslie J. King's 'Alternatives to a Positive Economic Geography', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 66,1976; Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. for Yi-Fu Tuan's 'Space and Place: Human istic Perspective', in Christopher Board et al. (eds. ), Progress in Geography, Vol. 6, 1974; Economic Geography for David Harvey's 'Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science' ,Economic Geography, Vol. SO, 1974; Institute of British Geographers for David Ley's 'Social Geography and the Taken-for-Granted World', Transactions of the Institute of British Geogra phers, Vol. 2, 1977; and North-Holland Publishing Company for Allen J.
Author : D J Peuquet
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203393244
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Introductory Readings In Geographic Information Systems written by D J Peuquet and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1990-09-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Geographic Information Systems GIS have been available for over 20 years, they have only recently become accessible to geographers and others as a useful tool in spacial analysis. This book assembles a balanced sample of written works covering important aspects of the basic principles of GIS and selected examples of applications.
Author : Ron Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134065876
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Geography and Geographers written by Ron Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography and Geographers continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of human geography available. It provides a survey of the major debates, key thinkers and schools of thought in the English-speaking world, setting them within the context of economic, social, cultural, political and intellectual changes. It is essential reading for all undergraduate geography students. It draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature and addresses the ways geography and its history are understood and the debates among geographers regarding what the discipline should study and how. This extensively updated seventh edition offers a thoroughly contemporary perspective on human geography for new and more experienced students alike.
Author : Fahui Wang
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 159140455X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis written by Fahui Wang and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computerized crime mapping or GIS in law enforcement agencies has experienced rapid growth, particularly since the mid 1990s. There has also been increasing interests in GIS analysis of crime from various academic fields including criminology, geography, urban planning, information science and others. This book features a diverse array of GIS applications in crime analysis, from general issues such as GIS as a communication process and inter-jurisdictional data sharing to specific applications in tracking serial killers and predicting juvenile violence. Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis showcases a broad range of methods and techniques from typical GIS tasks such as geocoding and hotspot analysis to advanced technologies such as geographic profiling, agent-based modeling and web GIS. Contributors range from university professors, criminologists in research institutes to police chiefs, GIS analysts in police departments and consultants in criminal justice.
