THE MODELING PROCESS IN GEOGRAPHY

Informationen zum Autor Yves Guermond is Emeritus Professor at the University of Rouen, France. Klappentext This title focuses on the evolution of the modeling process and on new research perspectives in theoretical and applied geography, as well as spatial planning. In the last 50 years, the achievements of spatial analysis models opened the way to a new understanding of the relationship between society and geographical space. In this book, these models are confronted by the real conditions of territorial prospect, regional dynamism, cultural policy, HMO, and spatial segregation. This confrontation takes into account the instability of social behavior and the permanence of partial determinist trajectories. Zusammenfassung This title focuses on the evolution of the modeling process and on new research perspectives in theoretical and applied geography, as well as spatial planning. In the last 50 years, the achievements of spatial analysis models opened the way to a new understanding of the relationship between society and geographical space. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword. The Taste for Measuring and Modeling xi Nicole MATHIEU Preface xxiii Acknowledgements xxv Chapter 1. The Place of Both the Model and Modeling in HSS 1 Patrice LANGLOIS and Daniel REGUER 1.1. Models and modeling: definitions 2 1.2. The mathematical concept of a model 5 1.3. Is there a specificity of HSS? 7 1.4. Modeling: explain to understand? 11 1.5. Bibliography 13 Chapter 2. From Classic Models to Incremental Models 15 Yves GUERMOND 2.1. The geographic "object" 16 2.2. Lessons from the "classic models" 16 2.3. Introduction to dynamics and auto-organization 22 2.4. From auto-organization to complexity 26 2.5. Spatial agents 30 2.6. Incremental modeling 32 2.7. Bibliography 35 Chapter 3. The Formalization of Knowledge in a Reality Simplifying System 39 Françoise LUCCHINI 3.1. Formalizing a complex cultural system using a series of perspectives 40 3.2. Differentiation of the system of cities by culture: contribution of the spatial analysis for testing the"global cultural model" 51 3.3. Alternative formalizations 63 3.4. Conclusion 69 3.5. Bibliography 69 Chapter 4. Modeling and Territorial Forecasting: Issues at Stake in the Modeling of Réunion's Spatial System 71 Gilles LAJOIE 4.1. Introduction 71 4.2. A few major theoretical breakthroughs for modeling spatial complexity 72 4.3. Modeling and territorial forecasting of the socio-spatial system of Réunion 78 4.4. Modeling of Réunion's socio-spatial system 90 4.5. Towards a modeling of the dynamics of Réunion's system 93 4.6. Conclusion 97 4.7. Bibliography 98 Chapter 5. One Model May Conceal Another: Models of Health Geographies 101 Alain VAGUET 5.1. Modeling in order to surpass descriptions? 102 5.2. Mode of the models and models in vogue 104 5.3. Conclusion 111 5.4. Bibliography 111 Chapter 6. Operational Models in HMO 113 Jean-François MARY and Jean-Manuel TOUSSAINT 6.1. Buffer and barycenter to determine the location of cardiac defibrillation 114 6.2. Thiessen's accessibility formula 117 6.3. Accessibility: the direct added-value of the GIS 121 6.4. A regional database of road accessibility devoted to emergency 123 6.5. The reallocation projects and their consequences 126 6.6. Relocation of a medical clinic: simulation of a new accessibility 131 6.7. Bibliography 134 Chapter 7. Modeling Spatial Logics of Individual Behaviors: From Methodological Environmentalism to the Individual Resident Strategist 137 Michel BUSSI 7.1....

Table des matières

Foreword. The Taste for Measuring and Modeling xi
Nicole MATHIEU

Preface xxiii

Acknowledgements xxv

Chapter 1. The Place of Both the Model and Modeling in HSS 1
Patrice LANGLOIS and Daniel REGUER

1.1. Models and modeling: definitions 2

1.2. The mathematical concept of a model 5

1.3. Is there a specificity of HSS? 7

1.4. Modeling: explain to understand? 11

1.5. Bibliography 13

Chapter 2. From Classic Models to Incremental Models 15
Yves GUERMOND

2.1. The geographic "object" 16

2.2. Lessons from the "classic models" 16

2.3. Introduction to dynamics and auto-organization 22

2.4. From auto-organization to complexity 26

2.5. Spatial agents 30

2.6. Incremental modeling 32

2.7. Bibliography 35

Chapter 3. The Formalization of Knowledge in a Reality Simplifying System 39
Françoise LUCCHINI

3.1. Formalizing a complex cultural system using a series of perspectives 40

3.2. Differentiation of the system of cities by culture: contribution of the spatial analysis for testing the"global cultural model" 51

3.3. Alternative formalizations 63

3.4. Conclusion 69

3.5. Bibliography 69

Chapter 4. Modeling and Territorial Forecasting: Issues at Stake in the Modeling of Réunion's Spatial System 71
Gilles LAJOIE

4.1. Introduction 71

4.2. A few major theoretical breakthroughs for modeling spatial complexity 72

4.3. Modeling and territorial forecasting of the socio-spatial system of Réunion 78

4.4. Modeling of Réunion's socio-spatial system 90

4.5. Towards a modeling of the dynamics of Réunion's system 93

4.6. Conclusion 97

4.7. Bibliography 98

Chapter 5. One Model May Conceal Another: Models of Health Geographies 101
Alain VAGUET

5.1. Modeling in order to surpass descriptions? 102

5.2. Mode of the models and models in vogue 104

5.3. Conclusion 111

5.4. Bibliography 111

Chapter 6. Operational Models in HMO 113
Jean-François MARY and Jean-Manuel TOUSSAINT

6.1. Buffer and barycenter to determine the location of cardiac defibrillation 114

6.2. Thiessen's accessibility formula 117

6.3. Accessibility: the direct added-value of the GIS 121

6.4. A regional database of road accessibility devoted to emergency 123

6.5. The reallocation projects and their consequences 126

6.6. Relocation of a medical clinic: simulation of a new accessibility 131

6.7. Bibliography 134

Chapter 7. Modeling Spatial Logics of Individual Behaviors: From Methodological Environmentalism to the Individual Resident Strategist 137
Michel BUSSI

7.1. Reconsidering spatial determinism: modeling versus local development 138

7.2. Ecological methodology 142

7.3. Towards a post-industrialist behavior 149

7.4. From neighborhood effect to the theory of the citizen-resident-strategist 152

7.5. Bibliography 157

Chapter 8. Temporalities and Modeling of Regional Dynamics: The Case of the European Union 161
Bernard ELISSALDE

8.1. Integrating time and temporalities into spatial models 162

8.2. Introduction of complexity theory in the interpretation of regional inequalities in Europe 168

8.3. Conclusion 186

8.4. Bibliography 188

Chapter 9. Modeling the Watershed as a Complex Spatial System: A Review 191
Daniel DELAHAYE

9.1. Shape indices for measuring various forms of a watershed 192

9.2. Organization of the networks 193

9.3. Synthesis concerning the shape and organization indices 200

9.4. From morphometry to complex systems 202

9.5. Conclusion 213

9.6. Bibliography 213

Chapter 10. Understanding to Measure...or Measuring to Understand? HBDS: Towards a Conceptual Approach for the Geographic Modeling of the Real World 217
Thierry SAINT-GERAND

10.1. A forgotten face of the geographic approach 217

10.2. Formalizing a spatial reasoning in databases 226

10.3. Example of thematic application: the industrial risks at Notre- Dame-de-Gravenchon (lower Seine
valley) 246

10.4. Back to the sources 252

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Détails du produit

• Auteurs: GUERMOND, Y Guermond, Yves Guermond, Modelisations En Geographie English
• Collaboration: Yves Guermond (Editeur)
• Edition: Import Diff
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 01.05.2009
• EAN: 9781848210875
• ISBN: 978-1-84821-087-5
• Thème: ISTE
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Nature, technique; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Géographie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; Geographie, Geography, Erdkunde, Allg. Geographie