Tobler's First Law of Geography: A Big Idea for a Small World?

2004/06/01 by Daniel Z. Sui · 283 citations
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Economic geography #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Geographic Information Systems Studies #Geography #Land Use and Ecosystem Services #Political science #Regional science

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402003.x

published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(2), 269-277 (American Association of Geographers)

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Abstract

A s one of 13 geographers elected into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences after World War II, Waldo Tobler's contributions to geography are well known. The late Peter Gould (1979) even remarked ...

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