Members of a discipline share common research questions, values they use to address normative issues, and a set of research methods. Collectively, the features of a discipline that are common to all of its members constitute its core. Disciplines – and their specializations – can also be...

Members of a discipline share common research questions, values they use to address normative issues, and a set of research methods. Collectively, the features of a discipline that are common to all of its members constitute its core. Disciplines – and their specializations – can also be...

Scientific geography is one of the great traditions of contemporary geography. The scientific approach in geography, as elsewhere, invovles the precise definition of variables and theoretical relationships that can be shown to be logically consistent. the theories are judged on the clarity of...

To introduce the Web Book of Regional Science it is first necessary to explain the basics of the field o f Regional Science. For regional scientists, a region is in most instances a geographical area smaller than the nation in which it is found. So a region might be a city, a county, a group of...