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The Modeling Process in Geography From Determinism to Complexity

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

07.07.2009

Herausgeber

Yves Guermond

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

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376

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23.4/15.5/2.5 cm

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680 g

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1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-84821-087-5

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

07.07.2009

Herausgeber

Yves Guermond

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

376

Maße (L/B/H)

23.4/15.5/2.5 cm

Gewicht

680 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-84821-087-5

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: The Modeling Process in Geography
  • Foreword. The Taste for Measuring and Modeling xi
    Nicole MATHIEU

    Preface xxiii

    Acknowledgements xxv

    Chapter 1. The Place of Both the Model and Modeling in HSS 1
    Patrice LANGLOIS and Daniel REGUER

    1.1. Models and modeling: definitions 2

    1.2. The mathematical concept of a model 5

    1.3. Is there a specificity of HSS? 7

    1.4. Modeling: explain to understand? 11

    1.5. Bibliography 13

    Chapter 2. From Classic Models to Incremental Models 15
    Yves GUERMOND

    2.1. The geographic "object" 16

    2.2. Lessons from the "classic models" 16

    2.3. Introduction to dynamics and auto-organization 22

    2.4. From auto-organization to complexity 26

    2.5. Spatial agents 30

    2.6. Incremental modeling 32

    2.7. Bibliography 35

    Chapter 3. The Formalization of Knowledge in a Reality Simplifying System 39
    Françoise LUCCHINI

    3.1. Formalizing a complex cultural system using a series of perspectives 40

    3.2. Differentiation of the system of cities by culture: contribution of the spatial analysis for testing the"global cultural model" 51

    3.3. Alternative formalizations 63

    3.4. Conclusion 69

    3.5. Bibliography 69

    Chapter 4. Modeling and Territorial Forecasting: Issues at Stake in the Modeling of Réunion's Spatial System 71
    Gilles LAJOIE

    4.1. Introduction 71

    4.2. A few major theoretical breakthroughs for modeling spatial complexity 72

    4.3. Modeling and territorial forecasting of the socio-spatial system of Réunion 78

    4.4. Modeling of Réunion's socio-spatial system 90

    4.5. Towards a modeling of the dynamics of Réunion's system 93

    4.6. Conclusion 97

    4.7. Bibliography 98

    Chapter 5. One Model May Conceal Another: Models of Health Geographies 101
    Alain VAGUET

    5.1. Modeling in order to surpass descriptions? 102

    5.2. Mode of the models and models in vogue 104

    5.3. Conclusion 111

    5.4. Bibliography 111

    Chapter 6. Operational Models in HMO 113
    Jean-François MARY and Jean-Manuel TOUSSAINT

    6.1. Buffer and barycenter to determine the location of cardiac defibrillation 114

    6.2. Thiessen's accessibility formula 117

    6.3. Accessibility: the direct added-value of the GIS 121

    6.4. A regional database of road accessibility devoted to emergency 123

    6.5. The reallocation projects and their consequences 126

    6.6. Relocation of a medical clinic: simulation of a new accessibility 131

    6.7. Bibliography 134

    Chapter 7. Modeling Spatial Logics of Individual Behaviors: From Methodological Environmentalism to the Individual Resident Strategist 137
    Michel BUSSI

    7.1. Reconsidering spatial determinism: modeling versus local development 138

    7.2. Ecological methodology 142

    7.3. Towards a post-industrialist behavior 149

    7.4. From neighborhood effect to the theory of the citizen-resident-strategist 152

    7.5. Bibliography 157

    Chapter 8. Temporalities and Modeling of Regional Dynamics: The Case of the European Union 161
    Bernard ELISSALDE

    8.1. Integrating time and temporalities into spatial models 162

    8.2. Introduction of complexity theory in the interpretation of regional inequalities in Europe 168

    8.3. Conclusion 186

    8.4. Bibliography 188

    Chapter 9. Modeling the Watershed as a Complex Spatial System: A Review 191
    Daniel DELAHAYE

    9.1. Shape indices for measuring various forms of a watershed 192

    9.2. Organization of the networks 193

    9.3. Synthesis concerning the shape and organization indices 200

    9.4. From morphometry to complex systems 202

    9.5. Conclusion 213

    9.6. Bibliography 213

    Chapter 10. Understanding to Measure...or Measuring to Understand? HBDS: Towards a Conceptual Approach for the Geographic Modeling of the Real World 217
    Thierry SAINT-GERAND

    10.1. A forgotten face of the geographic approach 217

    10.2. Formalizing a spatial reasoning in databases 226

    10.3. Example of thematic application: the industrial risks at Notre- Dame-de-Gravenchon (lower Seine
    valley) 246

    10.4. Back to the sources 252

    10.5