Screen LibrarySustainable geography
Sustainable Geography recalls the system and laws of geographical space production, tackles the hardcore of geography and presents models and organizations through a regional analysis and the dynamics of territorial structures and methods. The book also describes the general idea of discontinuities,...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118557846 |
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Sustainable Geography recalls the system and laws of geographical space production, tackles the hardcore of geography and presents models and organizations through a regional analysis and the dynamics of territorial structures and methods. The book also describes the general idea of discontinuities, trenches, the anti-dialectical and redivision-uniformity in the globalization and addresses the Transnational Urban Systems and Urban Network in Europe. |
| Item Description: | 10.3.1. The population and its distribution. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (430 pages). |
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9781118557846 (electronic bk.) 1118557840 (electronic bk.) 9781118622667 (electronic bk.) 1118622669 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | G70 |
| CLC: | X196 |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Author Biography; PART 1. GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE PRODUCTION: SYSTEMS AND LAWS; Part 1. Introduction; Chapter 1. Geography: the Hard Core of a Social Science; 1.1. The geographical question; 1.2. Geographical space is produced; 1.3. The reasons for the production of space; 1.4. The organization of space; 1.5. The logical field and the idea of a system in the production of space; 1.6. The environment and the memories of the system; 1.7. Geographical figures; 1.8. Scientific practice; 1.9. Conclusion. Chapter 2. The Geon and Energy of the System2.1. Populations and working forces; 2.2. Resources to actualize; 2.3. Information as a source of negentropy; 2.4. Production means and organization of space; 2.5. The place of the capital and its distribution; 2.6. The cybernetics of the system; 2.7. Back to A; Chapter 3. Geographical Fields as the Environment of Places; 3.1. Cardinal fields; 3.2. Planetary fields; 3.3. Cultural fields; 3.4. The effects of exposure and attraction; 3.5. Fields and geographical distributions; Chapter 4. Laws of Geographical Space Production. 4.1. Geographic logic and the law of profit4.2. Propositions of laws; 4.3. Environment in systems; Chapter 5. Sense of Distance; 5.1. Revelation of the distance; 5.2. Distance measure; 5.3. Ruptures of the distance; 5.4. The represented distance: isolation and entrenchment; 5.5. The distance and difference; 5.6. End of distance?; PART 2. BROKEN SPACE; Part 2. Introduction; Chapter 6. Discontinuities and Thresholds; 6.1. Discontinuity theory (1965); 6.2. Discontinuities and catastrophism; 6.2.1. Discontinuities and climate change; 6.3. The region and discontinuity. 6.4. Back to the discontinuity (1997)6.5. Three examples of discontinuities in the geomorphological processes; 6.5.1. The recession of Pyrenean glaciers; 6.5.2. The valleys of the Terrefort; 6.5.3. The erosion of soils in the Terrefort Toulousain; Chapter 7. Territory Retrenchments; 7.1. The pure and the wall; 7.2. Retrenchments at the center; 7.3. Separated peripheries; 7.4. Folds and double folds; 7.5. From retrenchment to res publica; Chapter 8. Antiworld and Alienation; 8.1. Alienation; 8.2. Antiworld; Chapter 9. Free Zones in the International Division of Labor. 9.1. The territories of the antiworld9.2. The complexity of the concept of international division of labor; 9.3. The free zones: simplicity of speech, complexity of the roles; 9.4. The golden belt; 9.5. Territories without frankness, buccaneering territories; Chapter 10. Geography of the Gulag Archipelago; 10.1. The sources of this survey; 10.2. Geographical history; 10.2.1. Diffusion of the system and development of the Archipelago; 10.2.2. Settlement and migration; 10.2.3. Large-scale works and virgin lands; 10.3. The organization of the archipelago. |