Applied Geography A World Perspective
Applied Geography, A World Perspective reviews progress in applied geography in different regions of the world. It does this through the eyes of an international panel of highly regarded academic practitioners. The book offers new prospects on the use of
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The GeoJournal Library Volume 77 Managing Editor: Max Barlow, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Founding Series Editor: Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany
Editorial Board:
Paul Claval, France Yehuda Gradus, Israel Risto Laulajainen, Sweden Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Applied Geography A World Perspective
edited by
ANTOINE BAILLY University of Geneva, Switzerland
LAY JAMES GIBSON University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress
ISBN 978-90-481-6656-5
ISBN 978-1-4020-2442-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-2442-9
Printed an acid-free paper
Funded by European Union (ERBIC 18CT 970152)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Antoines Bailly and Lay James Gibson
1
Part I: History and epistemological foundations Chapter 1 Managing geography after Y2K Antoine Bailly and Lay James Gibson
9
Chapter 2 The principles and practice of applied geography Michael Pacione
23
Chapter 3 Historical foundations of applied geography Michel Phlipponneau
47
Chapter 4 Political geography, public policy and the rise of policy analysis Kingsley E. Haynes, Qingshu Xie and Lei Ding
69
Chapter 5 The role of geographic information science in applied geography Arthur Getis
95
Chapter 6 Economic base theory and applied geography Lay James Gibson
113
Chapter 7 Retail location and consumer spatial choice behavior Harry Timmermans
133
Part II: A world perspective Chapter 8 Applied geography in Western and Southern Europe Jorge Gaspar
151
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Chapter 9 Applied geography in Central Europe Gy¨orgy Enyedi
169
Chapter 10 Applied geography in 20th century North America: A perspective John W. Frazier
187
Part III: Case studies Chapter 11 Disability, disadvantage, and discrimination: An overview with special emphasis on blindness in the usa Reginald G. Golledge
213
Chapter 12 Human Wayfinding Reginald G. Golledge
233
Chapter 13 International trade Jessie P.H. Poon and James E. McConnell
253
Chapter 14 Medicometry and regional development Antoine S. Bailly
273
Chapter 15 Monitoring and benchmarking regional and local performance Robert Stimson
287
Chapter 16 Applied geography for the future Antoine Bailly and Lay James Gibson
305
Chapter 17 Biographies and fields
309
Index
319
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