The practice of history has to contend with philosophies of history that exist in two different worlds. One is inhabited by philosophers, the other by historians. Workers in these different worlds rarely attend to the work of each other, despite overlap- ping interests. Nowhere is this more true than in questions surrounding what philosophers call realism and what historians call objectivity. T…
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This book, like its predecessor, is intended primarily for the use of undergraduates and graduates in urban geography courses, althrought it will so be of interest to students of urban planing, urban economics, and urban sociology.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are now essential to the work of an increasingly diverse range of organizations concerned with population characteristics, from local government and health authorities to major retailers and marketing agencies.rnrnThe period since the mid-1980s has seen massive growth in the field of GIS computer-based systems for the handling of geographically refer- enced …
Mountains cover about one-fifth of the Earth's surface and ars characterized by great environmental and cultural diversity They are important for at least half the world's populations a places to live; for natural resources and tourism, and as centres of biodiversity.rnrnGeographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly used in mountain areas to record baseline information about the state o…
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