The Modeling Process In Geography From Determinism To Complexity Yves Guermond by Yves Guermond 9780470611722, 9781848210875, 0470611723, 1848210876 instant download after payment.

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.Content:
Chapter 1 The Place of Both the Model and Modeling in HSS (pages 1–14): Patrice Langlois and Daniel Reguer
Chapter 2 From Classic Models to Incremental Models (pages 15–37): Yves Guermond
Chapter 3 The Formalization of Knowledge in a Reality Simplifying System (pages 39–70): Francoise Lucchini
Chapter 4 Modeling and Territorial Forecasting: Issues at Stake in the Modeling of Reunion's Spatial System (pages 71–99): Gilles Lajoie
Chapter 5 One Model May Conceal Another: Models of Health Geographies (pages 101–112): Alain Vaguet
Chapter 6 Operational Models in HMO (pages 113–135): Jean?Francois Mary and Jean?Manuel Toussaint
Chapter 7 Modeling Spatial Logics of Individual Behaviors: From Methodological Environmentalism to the Individual Resident Strategist (pages 137–160): Michel Bussi
Chapter 8 Temporalities and Modeling of Regional Dynamics: The Case of the European Union (pages 161–189): Bernard Elissalde
Chapter 9 Modeling the Watershed as a Complex Spatial System: A Review (pages 191–215): Daniel Delahaye
Chapter 10 Understanding to Measure… or Measuring to Understand? HBDS: Towards a Conceptual Approach for the Geographic Modeling of the Real World (pages 217–254): Thierry Saint?Gerand
Chapter 11 Complexity and Spatial Systems (pages 255–276): Patrice Langlois
Chapter 12 Cellular Automata for Modeling Spatial Systems (pages 277–307): Patrice Langlois
Chapter 13 Multi?Agent Systems for Simulation in Geography: Moving Towards an Artificial Geography (pages 309–334): Eric Daude