Format:
1 online resource (259 pages)
ISBN:
9780309577625
Content:
Rediscovering Geography -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- THE PERSPECTIVES, SUBJECT MATTER, AND TECHNIQUES OF GEOGRAPHY -- GEOGRAPHY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND DECISION MAKING -- STRENGTHENING GEOGRAPHY'S FOUNDATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- CONTEXT OF THE REPORT -- Changes in Society -- Changes in Relationships Between Society and Science -- Changes in Relationships Between Society and Geography -- Changes Within Geography Itself -- SCOPE OF THE REPORT -- CONTENT OF THE REPORT -- 2 Geography and Critical Issues -- ECONOMIC HEALTH -- ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION -- ETHNIC CONFLICT -- HEALTH CARE -- GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE -- EDUCATION -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Geography's Perspectives -- GEOGRAPHY'S WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE WORLD -- Integration in Place -- Interdependencies Between Places -- Interdependencies Among Scales -- DOMAINS OF SYNTHESIS -- Environmental-Societal Dynamics -- Human Use of and Impacts on the Environment -- Environmental Impacts on Humankind -- Human Perceptions of and Responses to Environmental Change -- Environmental Dynamics -- Biogeography -- Climatology -- Geomorphology -- Human-Societal Dynamics: From Location Theory to Social Theory -- Societal Synthesis in Place -- Space, Scale, and Human-Societal Dynamics -- SPATIAL REPRESENTATION -- GEOGRAPHIC EPISTEMOLOGIES -- 4 Geography's Techniques -- OBSERVATION -- Field Observation/Exploration -- Remote Sensing -- Sampling and Choice of Observations -- DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS -- Cartography -- Geographic Information Systems -- Geographic Visualization -- Spatial Statistics -- CONCLUSIONS -- 5 Geography's Contributions to Scientific Understanding -- INTEGRATION IN PLACE -- Geography's Subject Matter -- Example: Environmental-Societal Dynamics -- Example: The Distinctiveness of Place.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780309051996
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rediscovering geography Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1997 ISBN 0309051991
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Geografie
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Wissenschaftsentwicklung
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