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"The volume Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography is the fourth book published by Edward Elgar on applied evolutionary economics stems from the fourth European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics (EMAEE) held in Utrecht, 19-21 May, 2005. ... The present volume Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography aims to advance empirical methodologies in evolutionary economics, this time with a special emphasis on geography"-- Preface

Traditionally, applied aspects of human geography are mainly associated with economic geography, regional development and spatial planning.
In the debate on the application potential of the discipline, a number of important problems of social, political and cultural geography, relevant to various contemporary processes on a global and regional scale, are marginalized. For this reason, the author undertakes a critical rethinking of the current debate on the applied aspects of research in human geography.
A brief review of the conceptual and institutional development of applied geography in the world and in selected national schools is made. The author also distinguishes two research orientations: 1) strategic orientation – connected to studies carried out at the international, national and macro-regional spatial levels; 2) operational orientation – concerning applied studies undertook on a scale of separate municipalities, cities, neighbourhoods or even separate streets and buildings.
Taking an attempt to overcome the narrow understandings of the frameworks of applied human geography, the author presents a new definition and tries to identify the main challenges for geographers that work in the field of Human Geography. Applied aspects of basic directions of human geography from the point of view of their broader interdisciplinary ties are also indicated.

1. The nature of an academic discipline -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Growth of systematic studies and the adoption of scientific method -- 4. Human geography as spatial science -- 5. Humanistic geography -- 6. Radical geography -- 7. Postmodernism, poststructuralism and postcolonialism -- 8. Feminist geography -- 9. Applied geography and the relevance debates -- 10. A changing discipline?.

This research about rural geography is devoted to the regrouping of lands, which is today the center of multiple varied issues. It is no longer used as a mere tool of revision and reorganization of agricultural plots of land. Its developing purpose and conservation desire as well as the preservation or improvement of rural societies coherence have led to a change of aims as regards the regrouping of lands, without changing its major function of rationalization of parcels. These methods are now resolutely turned towards the ambition of sustainable agriculture. The author deals here with the numerous questions linked to those new expectations analysing is his research the geographical area of the department of Moselle. There, the landscapes are characterized by openfields whose divisions varies strongly with geo-historical and geo-agronomical specificities in the areas studied. Besides, for o couple of years, the Conseil Général of Moselle has put a lot into a qualitative approach through an adequate property development. It is therefore an original field of experiment. The extrem variety and complexed entanglement of the possible consequences of a regrouping have led the author to deal with the experiment on fifteen towns regrouped between 1986-1996, along a cross-disciplinary theme, before suggesting sollutions, orientations so as to make aims, the procedure and the decision-making instruments evolve qualitatively ; Cette recherche de géographie rurale est consacrée au remembrement placé aujourd'hui au cœur de problématiques multiples et variées, ne le positionnant plus en simple outil de refonte et de réorganisation des parcellaires agricoles. Sa vocation aménageante, ses velléités de préservation de l'environnement et de maintien ou d'amélioration de la cohérence des sociétés rurales, ont amené le remembrement à évoluer dans ses objectifs, tout en rendant les parcellaires définis compatibles avec une exploitation rationnelle des terres. Ses méthodes sont désormais résolument orientées vers des ambitions ...

This research about rural geography is devoted to the regrouping of lands, which is today the center of multiple varied issues. It is no longer used as a mere tool of revision and reorganization of agricultural plots of land. Its developing purpose and conservation desire as well as the preservation or improvement of rural societies coherence have led to a change of aims as regards the regrouping of lands, without changing its major function of rationalization of parcels. These methods are now resolutely turned towards the ambition of sustainable agriculture. The author deals here with the numerous questions linked to those new expectations analysing is his research the geographical area of the department of Moselle. There, the landscapes are characterized by openfields whose divisions varies strongly with geo-historical and geo-agronomical specificities in the areas studied. Besides, for o couple of years, the Conseil Général of Moselle has put a lot into a qualitative approach through an adequate property development. It is therefore an original field of experiment. The extrem variety and complexed entanglement of the possible consequences of a regrouping have led the author to deal with the experiment on fifteen towns regrouped between 1986-1996, along a cross-disciplinary theme, before suggesting sollutions, orientations so as to make aims, the procedure and the decision-making instruments evolve qualitatively ; Cette recherche de géographie rurale est consacrée au remembrement placé aujourd'hui au cœur de problématiques multiples et variées, ne le positionnant plus en simple outil de refonte et de réorganisation des parcellaires agricoles. Sa vocation aménageante, ses velléités de préservation de l'environnement et de maintien ou d'amélioration de la cohérence des sociétés rurales, ont amené le remembrement à évoluer dans ses objectifs, tout en rendant les parcellaires définis compatibles avec une exploitation rationnelle des terres. Ses méthodes sont désormais résolument orientées vers des ambitions ...

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