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New models in geography : the political-economy perspective

This text on human geography seeks to place the subject in political and economic contexts, examining the effects of political thought and social theory on development, demography, planning and environmental change.
Print Book, English, 1989
Unwin-Hyman, London, 1989
xviii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780049101005, 9780049101012, 9780044454212, 0049101005, 0049101013, 004445421X
19129069
Foreword, Introduction, Acknowledgements, List of contributors, PART I NEW MODELS, 1. Political economy and human geography, 2. Mathematical models in human geography: 20 years on, PART II NEW MODELS OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, Introduction, 3. Resource management and natural hazards, 4. The challenge for environmentalism, PART III NEW MODELS OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL CHANGE, Introduction, 5. New models of regional change, 6. Uneven development and location theory: towards a synthesis, 7. Rural geography and political economy, 8. The restructuring debate, 9. Marxism, post-Marxism, and the geography of development, PART IV NEW MODELS OF THE NATION, STATE, AND POLITICS, Introduction, 10. Nation, space, modernity, 11. The state, political geography, and geography, 12. The geography of law, 13. The political economy of the local state, Index
Includes index