Ambiguous geographies: Connecting case study knowledge with global change science

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 572-596

  Margulies, Jared D ^a   Magliocca, Nicholas R ^b   Schmill, Matthew D ^a   Ellis, Erle C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic representation; GIScience; Metastudy; Research synthesis; Scale

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; GIS; GLOBAL CHANGE;

EID: 84971463440     PISSN: 24694452     EISSN: 24694460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1142857     Document Type: Article

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