Sustainable Geography

Sustainable Geography recalls the system and laws of geographical
space production, tackles the hardcore of geography and presents
models and organizations through a regional analysis and the
dynamics of territorial structures and methods.

The book also describes the general idea of discontinuities,
trenches, the anti-dialectical and redivision-uniformity in the
globalization and addresses the Transnational Urban Systems and
Urban Network in Europe.

Auteur

Roger Brunet was Professor at the Universities of Toulouse and Reims in France, then Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris and worked for the Intergéo laboratory and the public interest group RECLUS in Montpellier. He was the founder of the international scientific journals L'Espace géographique and Mappemonde, as well as the originator of the concept of the chorem.

Résumé
Sustainable Geography recalls the system and laws of geographical space production, tackles the hardcore of geography and presents models and organizations through a regional analysis and the dynamics of territorial structures and methods.

The book also describes the general idea of discontinuities, trenches, the anti-dialectical and redivision-uniformity in the globalization and addresses the Transnational Urban Systems and Urban Network in Europe.

Contenu

Preface xiii

Author Biography xix

PART 1. GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE PRODUCTION: SYSTEMS AND LAWS 1

Part 1. Introduction 3

Chapter 1. Geography: the Hard Core of a Social Science 5

1.1. The geographical question 5

1.2. Geographical space is produced 6

1.3. The reasons for the production of space 8

1.4. The organization of space 10

1.5. The logical field and the idea of a system in the production of space 13

1.6. The environment and the memories of the system 14

1.7. Geographical figures 16

1.8. Scientific practice 18

1.9. Conclusion 20

Chapter 2. The Geon and Energy of the System 23

2.1. Populations and working forces 26

2.2. Resources to actualize 28

2.3. Information as a source of negentropy 30

2.4. Production means and organization of space 33

2.5. The place of the capital and its distribution 35

2.6. The cybernetics of the system 38

2.7. Back to A 40

Chapter 3. Geographical Fields as the Environment of Places 43

3.1. Cardinal fields 44

3.2. Planetary fields 45

3.3. Cultural fields 46

3.4. The effects of exposure and attraction 47

3.5. Fields and geographical distributions 49

Chapter 4. Laws of Geographical Space Production 51

4.1. Geographic logic and the law of profit 52

4.2. Propositions of laws 53

4.3. Environment in systems 57

Chapter 5. Sense of Distance 59

5.1. Revelation of the distance 59

5.2. Distance measure 61

5.3. Ruptures of the distance 63

5.4. The represented distance: isolation and entrenchment 65

5.5. The distance and difference 67

5.6. End of distance? 70

PART 2. BROKEN SPACE 73

Part 2. Introduction 75

Chapter 6. Discontinuities and Thresholds 77

6.1. Discontinuity theory (1965) 77

6.2. Discontinuities and catastrophism 79

6.3. The region and discontinuity 84

6.4. Back to the discontinuity (1997) 86

6.5. Three examples of discontinuities in the geomorphological processes 89

Chapter 7. Territory Retrenchments 93

7.1. The pure and the wall 94

7.2. Retrenchments at the center 96

7.3. Separated peripheries 99

7.4. Folds and double folds 102

7.5. From retrenchment to res publica 104

Chapter 8. Antiworld and Alienation 107

8.1. Alienation 107

8.2. Antiworld 108

Chapter 9. Free Zones in the International Division of Labor 117

9.1. The territories of the antiworld 117

9.2. The complexity of the concept of international division of labor 119

9.3. The free zones: simplicity of speech, complexity of the roles 119

9.4. The golden belt 121

9.5. Territories without frankness, buccaneering territories 122

Chapter 10. Geography of the Gulag Archipelago 125

10.1. The sources of this survey 126

10.2. Geographical history 127

10.3. The organization of the archipelago 133

10.4. The modes of production 142

10.5. Conclusion 152

10.6. Appendix 153

Chapter 11. Geography of Migrations or the Antiworld in Spate 155

11.1. Waves and currents of emigration 156

11.2. Wanderings of insecurity, fracture of Mediterraneans 158

11.3. Migrations systems: nomadism or wandering 160

11.4. Conclusion 161

PART 3. MODELS AND CHOREMATICS 163

Part 3. Introduction 165

Chapter 12. Building Models for Spatial Analysis 167

12.1. From spatial organization to models 168

12.2. Choremes 172 <p&...