IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-15733-2_9.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Essence of Scale

In: Scale

Author

Listed:
  • Cristian Suteanu

    (Saint Mary’s University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Science)

Abstract

Whereas the first chapter served as a prism that helped us to split a diffuse flow of notions of scale into three crisply defined streams, this last chapter brings the streams back together and focuses on their common core. We illuminate the three types of scale from several angles, based on concepts rooted in logic and mathematics – guided cut, logical field, mapping, morphism, and representation, all of them focusing on the central traits of the scale types. These views are shown to converge towards a general concept of scale. Thereby, the three main scale types can be recognized as branches originating in the same trunk, which can be explicitly outlined. Overall, scale proves to be fruitfully viewed as a process, rather than merely a static medium that is available for other processes to occur. The future of scale is addressed in light of its history as a living concept.

Suggested Citation

  • Cristian Suteanu, 2022. "The Essence of Scale," Springer Books, in: Scale, chapter 0, pages 277-310, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-15733-2_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15733-2_9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-15733-2_9. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.