Geography's Inner Worlds

by Abler, Ronald F.; Marcus, Melvin G.; Olson, Judy M.

• ISBN13: 9780813518299
• ISBN10: 0813518296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Twenty-six leading American geographers meditate on the themes that unify contemporary geography. They emphasize the concepts and methods that run through all geography's sub-disciplines and give it a distinctive place among both the natural and social sciences. Prepared under the sponsorship of the American Association of Geographers for the International Geographical Congress 1992, these insightful essays on the character of the discipline and its future will be required reading for every student of the field.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
About the Authors and Editors
Contemporary American Geography	p. 1
What Geography Is About
Geography's Worlds	p. 9
Places and Regions	p. 27
Representations of the World	p. 50
What Geographers Do
Observation	p. 77
Visualization	p. 99
Analysis	p. 138
Modeling	p. 163
Communication	p. 187
How Geographers Think
Location, Place, Region, and Space	p. 215
Movements, Cycles, and Systems	p. 234
The Local-Global Continuum	p. 255
Scale in Space and Time	p. 280
Why Geographers Think That Way
Paradigms for Inquiry?	p. 301
Humanism and Science in Geography	p. 327
Applications of Geographic Concepts and Methods	p. 342
The Peopling of American Geography	p. 363
Afterword	p. 391
Index	p. 403
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