Eric Sheppard

Companion to Economic Geography

Ed. by Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field.
Places economic geography in the wider context of geography.
Contributions from leading international scholars in the field.
Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview of all the major themes in the field.
Explores key debates, controversies and questions using a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points.
Charts the important work that has been done in recent years and looks forward to new developments in the global economy.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9780631235798
• ISBN-10: 0631235795
• Artikelnr.: 13588182

Autorenporträt

Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the Capitalist Space Economy (with Trevor Barnes), A World of Difference (with Philip Porter), and editor of Scale and Geographic Inquiry (with Robert McMaster), as well as the author of numerous articles on regional political economy. Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He is the author or editor of six previous books including Logics of Dislocation, and most recently The New Industrial Geography (with Meric Gertler). His current research is around the history of geography's quantitative revolution.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography: Trevor J. Barnesand Eric Sheppard.

Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography.

Part II: Realms of Production.

Part III: Resource Worlds.

Part IV: Social Worlds.

Part V: Spaces of Circulation.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This is an instant classic, a landmark that scholars and graduatestudents will return to for decades to come. Physically andbibliographically, this presentation is state of the art. A "must"addition to all social science collections worldwide." P.O.Muller, University of Miami

"The Companion, then, is intended to provide a state ofthe art review of the ideas, concepts, and theories that arecurrent in economic geography... This is a uniformly high qualitycollection that I wholeheartedly recommend to interestedundergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers alike, whether theyterm themselves 'economic geographers' or not. The chapters workwell as stand alone resources, and equally, the structure of thebook into five separate but interlinked 'realms' provides a goodoverall coherence." Environment and Planning A.

"The Companion adopts a rather conventional organizationof subsequent chapters that will fit with many course syllabi,moving from "Realms of Production" through "Resource Worlds" and"Social Worlds" to "Spaces of Circulation"." Peter O. Muller,Annals of the Association of American Geographers

"This is an impressive and very welcome volume. The editors andauthors have done a great job and the rest of us should be gratefulfor the fact that this rich collection of papers is accessible"Environment and Planning D.

"...manages to combine a strong sense of the intellectualdiversity of contemporary economic geography...with an awareness ofthe key questions which define the scope of the discipline."Keith Chapman, Univesity of Aberdeen