A Bailly

Applied Geography: A World Perspective - GeoJournal Library A Bailly 2004 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introduction. Chapter 1: Managing geography after Y2K. Chapter 2: The principles and practice of applied geography. Chapter 3: Historical foundations of applied geography. Chapter 4: Political geography, public policy and the rise of policy analysis. Chapter 5: The role of geographic information science in applied geography. Chapter 6: Economic base theory and applied geography. Chapter 7: Retail location and consumer spatial choice behavior. Chapter 8: Applied geography in Western and Southern Europe. Chapter 9: Applied geography in Central Europe. Chapter 10: Applied geography in 20th century North America: A perspective. Chapter 11: Disability, disadvantage, and discrimination: An overview with special emphasis on blindness in the USA. Chapter 12: Human wayfinding. Chapter 13: International trade. Chapter 14: Medicometry and regional development. Chapter 15: Monitoring and benchmarking regional and local performance. Chapter 16: Applied geography for the future. Chapter 17: Biographies and fields. Index.

Contributor Bio:  Bailly, Antoine Antoine Bailly is a professor of geography at the University of Geneva. Contributor Bio:  Gibson, Lay James Lay James Gibson is a University Distinguished Outreach Professor in Geography and Regional Development at the University of Arizona.