New Models in Geog V 1

ISBN-13: 9780415239653 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 365 str.

Richard Peet; Nigel Thrift

Opis

Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the books range from cultural to economic to urban geography. The authors explore connections between political economy and geographic thought in each area, with the emphasis lying on the processes of material production and social reproduction.
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Spis treści

Foreword, Introduction, Acknowledgements, List of contributors, PART I: NEW MODELS, 1. Political economy and human geography, 2. Mathematical models in human geography: 20 years on, PART II: NEW MODELS OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, Introduction, 3. Resource management and natural hazards, 4. The challengefor environmentalism, PART III: NEW MODELS OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL CHANGE, Introduction, 5. New models of regional change, 6. Uneven development and location theory: towards a synthesis, 7. Rural geography and political economy, 8. The restructuring debate, 9. Marxism, post-Marxism, and the geography of development, PART IV: NEW MODELS OF THE NATION, STATE, AND POLITICS, Introduction, 10. Nation, space, modernity, 11. The state, political geography, and geography, 12. The geography of law, 13. The political economy of the local state, Index

O autorze

Richard Peet, Nigel Thift, Clark University & University of Bristol