CHAPTER 9

Analytical Techniques in Geography

R. N. Vyas

Introduction

Within the limits of the fundamental viewpoint of geography as topical and regional studies, geographers deal with varied phenomena in relation to their location or spatial arrangement at a given time or over a period of time and, in practice, organize the information according to the three basic dimensions of area, topic and time. This conventional structure of geographic information is getting complicated because of the intrinsic nature of relationship among different elements and, also, the increasing number of topics and sub-regional units that are being added to topical and spatial scales for deeper comprehension of society and the earth. Similarly, space, as an impeding ...

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