Regional geography : current developments and future prospects
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Regional geography : current developments and future prospects
（Routledge series in geography and environment）
Routledge, 1990
Available at 33 libraries
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Papers from a seminar convened by members of the Dept. of Geography of the University of Utrecht in October 1987
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The last two decades of quantitative and theoretical revolution in geography seem to have successfully questioned the centrality of the regional approach. This book, however, urges the case for reinstating regional geography as a contemporary and relevant methodology. Much interest has been shown in recent years in reviving, yet restructuring, the field of regional geography, an interest which the essays in this book review and propose ways for development. The essays divide into three sections. The first assesses traditional regional geography and its relevance to the study of contemporary situations; the second, the alternative approaches to world-systems analysis, diffusion and structuration theory. The book concludes by considering the potential of regional geography to interpret the structures within which society operates and its claim to remain at the core of the discipline.
Table of Contents
- Region, place and locale - an introduction to different conceptions of regional geography, R.J.Johnston et al
- regional geography must adjust to new realities, G.A.Hoekveld
- the changing view of the world in major geographical textbooks, J.A.van Ginkel and L.J.Paul
- regions of the world system - between the general and the specific, Cees P.Terlouw
- re-thinking regions - some preliminary considerations on regions and social change, Ray Hudson
- what about regional geography after structuration theory?, Joost Hauer
- regional geography - between scientific theory, ideology practice or what use is regional geography?, Roger Lee
- the challenge for regional geography - some proposals in research frontiers, R.J.Johnston
- metamorphosis - how spatial facts change into classes of geographical regions, Gerda Hoekveld-Meijer
- doing regional geography in a global system - the new international financial system, the city of London and the South East of England, 1984-1987, Nigel Thrift
- epilogue - towards an agenda for regional geographical research, J.Hauer et al.
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