Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method

This book is the first contemporary book to compare and integratethe various ways geographers think about and use scale across thespectrum of the discipline and includes state-of-the-artcontributions by authoritative human geographers, physicalgeographers and GIS specialists. Provides a state of the art survey of how geographers thinkabout scale.Brings together recent interest in scale in human and physicalgeography, as well as geographic information sciencePlaces competing concepts of scale side by side in order tocompare them.The introduction and conclusion, by the editors, explores thecommon ground.