Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Contrasts, Intersections, and Boundaries

Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 256-267

  Sheppard, Eric ^a   McMaster, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrasts; Geographic information science; Geographic inquiry; Intersections; Scale

Indexed keywords

CONTRASTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY; SCALE;

INTERSECTIONS;

EID: 84953372114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999141.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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