The modeling process in geography: from determinism to complexity

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 traje

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 traje

Foreword : the taste for measuring and modeling / Nicole Mathieu -- Ch. 1. place of both the model and modeling in HSS / Patrice Langlois and Daniel Reguer -- Ch. 2. From classic models to incremental models / Yves Guermond -- Ch. 3. Formalization of knowledge in a reality simplifying system / Françoise Lucchini -- Ch. 4. Modeling and territorial forecasting : issues at stake in the modeling of Réunion's spatial system / Gilles Lajoie -- Ch. 5. One model may conceal another : models of health geographies / Alain Vaguet -- Ch. 6. Operational models in HMO / Jean-Francois Mary and Jean-Manuel Toussaint -- Ch. 7. Modeling spatial logics of individual behaviors : from methodological environmentalism to the individual resident strategist / Michel Bussi -- Ch. 8. Temporalities and modeling of regional dynamics : the case of the European Union / Bernard Elissalde -- Ch. 9. Modeling the watershed as a complex spatial system: a review / Daniel Delahaye -- Ch. 10. Understanding to measure ... or measuring to understand? : HBDS : towards a conceptual approach for the geographic modeling of the real world / Thierry Saint-Gerand -- Ch. 11. Complexity and spatial systems / Patrice Langlois -- Ch. 12. Cellular automata for modeling spatial systems / Patrice Langlois -- Ch. 13. Multi-agent systems for simulation in geography : moving towards an artificial geography / Eric Daude.