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Quantitative Geography is a lucid and comprehensive overview of the use of quantitative methods in spatial data analysis. It focuses on the philosophy informing spatial analysis and demonstrates the significant differences between modern quantitative methods and the methods associated with Geography’s ‘Quantitative Revolutions’. The text integrates a discussion of the application of quantitative methods ...
The present publication ‘the Geographic Information Systems’ discusses somewhat in detail the system for managing spatial data and associated attributes. Geographic Information Systems technology can be used for scientific investigations, resources management, asset management, development planning, cartography and route planning. GIS was the world’s first “System†and was an improvement over “mapping†applications as it provided capabilities for ...
Transport geography is a sub-discipline of geography concerned about movements of freight, people and information along with their physical and transactional context. It tries to link spatial constraints and attributes with the origin, the destination, the extent, the nature and the purpose of movements. As a discipline, transport geography emerged from economic geography in the second half of the twentieth century. Since the 1990s, it has received renewed ...
Tourism is one of the most significant social forces in the world today. Almost every place on earth is affected by tourism. We are all potential tourists, and during our lifetimes we will probably travel extensively within our local area. Our country and or many of the world’s regions. Tourism has enormous international economic and geopolitical importance. It constructs, rearranges, and inhabits geographic, social and cultural spaces globally. This book ...
This compendium of 45 papers in two volumes, in honour of Prof. L.N. Ram, formerly Vice-Chancellor of Patna University, addresses a wide range of issues concerning urban and regional development in India. Analysing local and regional patterns and processes of urbanisation, it examines the problems that the cities are facing due to their rapid growth. The contributors also address the issues pertaining urban structure and landuse change, sustainable agricultural ...