This book is the first contemporary book to compare and integratethe various ways geographers think about and use scale across thespectrum of the discipline and includes state-of-the-artcontributions by authoritative human geographers, physicalgeographers and GIS specialists.
* * Provides a state of the art survey of how geographers thinkabout scale.
* Brings together recent interest in scale in human and physicalgeography, as well as geographic information science
* Places competing concepts of scale side by side in order tocompare them.
* The introduction and conclusion, by the editors, explores thecommon ground.