By Derek Gregory, Rex Walford
Human geography, as an issue, has turn into well known on the grounds that its connections with the social sciences have widened and deepended the learn of individuals, areas and social buildings. Horizons in Human Geography presents a transparent and obtainable cartoon map of a few of the most recent and such a lot promising advancements within the topic. The ebook starts off through assessing the function and boundaries of ideas, types and theories and proceeds to supply a broad-ranging assessment of the main social, cultural, city, local, political, monetary and environmental matters confronting geographers this day. Contents: advent; half I: past The Quantitative Revolution; half II: humans and locations, Societies and areas; half III: Explorations within the urban; IV: Landscapes of construction; half V: local Geographies and worldwide views; half VI: Politicising the surroundings. Contributors: Derek Gregory, Rex Walford, Michael J. Clark, Alan Wilson, R. J. Johnston, John Eyles, Denis Cosgrove, Linda McDowell, Roger Lee, Keith Bassett, John brief, Richard Dennis, Ian Douglas, Doreen Massey, Richard Meegan, John Harriss, Barbara Hariss, Nigel Thrift, Michael Taylor, Peter Taylor, Graham E. Smith, Stuart Cobridge, Judith Rees, Timothy O'Riordan and invoice Mead.
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The aim of this chapter is to show some of the dramatic advances which have occurred in this aspect of geographical theory in recent years, and to demonstrate how these advances rest on the development of mathematical modelling as a method in geography. Although there are some obvious difficulties in expounding these ideas in a brief essay, the main concepts can be communicated with a minimum of mathematics and the results of applying them can be clearly demonstrated. 29 30 Mathematical Models and Geographical Theory One useful way to proceed is to relate the new to the old: to show how the theory which is based on mathematical modelling provides a powerful substitute for what is traditionally thought of and taught as geographical theory - what might be called 'classical' theory which still figures, relatively uncritically, in most texts.
Whilst in many senses this is a conceptual advance, it does have technical counterparts which allow IT to play an increasingly important 'multitemporal' role (though in the field of remote sensing the term 'multidate' might be preferred). If we return to the example of satellite image processing, then it is possible to demonstrate completely new descriptive and explanatory dimensions developing when images are created which depict change rather than state. Thus it is possible to combine winter and summer images better to classify areas with a seasonal variation in land use or vegetation.
What is important is that this model can be used to predict the values of a locational variable from the postulated interaction variables: (Equation 4) In the retailing example, for instance, if OJ is the amount of money being spent in a period by residents of zone i, then D j is the set of total revenues attracted to each zone j given the floorspaces, Wj. Thus Equations 1, 2 and 4 constitute not only an interaction model, but also a locational model. Application of spatial interaction concepts An interaction model of some appropriate type is important for each of our examples.