Recently added articles from Geographical Analysis:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2008; ... It has been a pleasure to be the editor of Geographical Analysis over the last 6 years. I have learned much in the process. The success of any journal is dependent upon excellent contributions from authors and meaningful review by qualified referees, and to this end GA has ...
Area-to-point prediction under boundary conditions.
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article proposes a geostatistical solution for area-to-point spatial prediction (downscaling) taking into account boundary effects. Such effects are often poorly considered in downscaling, even though they often have significant impact on the results. The geostatistical approach ...
Analysis of a distribution of point events using the network-based quadrat method.
Oct 01, 2008; ... This study proposes a new quadrat method that can be applied to the study of point distributions in a network space. While the conventional planar quadrat method remain one of the most fundamental spatial analytical methods on a two-dimensional plane, its quadrats are usually identified by ...
Locational equilibria in Weberian agglomeration.
Oct 01, 2008; ... A simple Weberian agglomesration is developed and then extended as an innovative fixed-charged, colocation model over a large set of locational possibilities. The model is applied to cases in which external economies (EE) arise due to colocation alone and also cases in which EE arise due ...
A "Caesarian," "Augustan," or "Justinian" worldview of theoretical and quantitative geography?(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... An evolving world view of theoretical and quantitative geography is presented using an analogy from the development of the ancient Roman and Byzantine Empires between Julius Caesar in the first century BC to Justinian in the sixth century AD. This is used to set the discussion platform for ...
A personal perspective from being a student of the quantitative revolution.
Jul 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION As part of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Congress held in Brisbane, Australia in 2006, a special event, "'Legends' in Quantitative Geography and Geographic Information Science," was organized as a joint venture sponsored by the Australian Research ...
The spirit of quantitative geography (1).(EPILOGUE)(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... All of us taking part in the "Legends" session must be nearer the end of our academic lives than the beginning and it's a very rare privilege to have this opportunity for reflecting together. Thank you very much. Any occasion like this prompts thoughts in three time frames--past, present, ...
From Spatial Analysis to geospatial science.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... When Spatial Analysis was published in 1968, it drew together the fruits of the first decade of geography's quantitative revolution. In the decades that have followed, quantitative geography has both diffused and concentrated, abandoned some themes, made major progress on others, and in ...
Behavioral Geography and the Theoretical/Quantitative Revolution.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Beginning with a position statement about the serendipitous nature of the emergence of both normative theory and quantitative methods in Geography, this chapter details the nature of the various contributions to both areas by Behavioral Geographers. Contributions to data collection and ...
Geography, space, and science: perspectives from studies of migration and geographical sorting.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... For the past four decades a significant subset of geographers have had a strong interest in using scientific methods and tools to answer questions about society and societal change. The scientific endeavor, learning and verifying new knowledge, has been at the heart of this project. Even ...
Demographic modeling of the geography of migration and population: a multiregional perspective.
Jul 01, 2008; ... This article focuses on the development and evolution of migration and population redistribution modeling within the spatial context of multiregional demography. It begins on 1965, when the state-of-the-art consisted largely of ideas and techniques imported from other disciplines ...
A history of the concept of spatial autocorrelation: a geographer's perspective.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Spatial autocorrelation is a concept that helps to define the field of spatial analysis. It is central to studies using spatial statistics and spatial econometrics. In this paper, we trace the early development of the concept and explain the academic links that brought the concept to the ...
Statistical perspectives on geographic information science.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Statistical geometry applies probabilistic methods to geometric forms. In the early days of the quantitative revolution statistical geometry appeared to provide a useful framework for geographic research, but its value appeared to decline in the 1970s and 1980s. Geographic information ...
Is geography (still) a science?(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Geographic science remains contested. The practice of geographic science has long been criticized on both methodological and institutional grounds, often justifiably. Even more serious is the continuing assault on the very idea of science as the objective discovery of and search for ...
Quantitative human geography: are we turning full circle?(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... The application of quantitative approaches remains a strong component within the portfolio of geographical practices. Sadly, however, it appears that many within human geography think otherwise, presenting it to students (notably in textbooks; Johnston 2006) as neither strong nor vital--if ...
The local shape of revolution: reflections on quantitative geography at Cambridge in the 1950s and 1960s.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... The "quantitative revolution" in human geography which swept across so many universities in the 1950s and 1960s had its main diffusion centers in a few locations which were to have global significance. Two critical early centers were the University of Washington in the Pacific Northwest ...