Regional Systems Analysis at UC DavisProfessor G. William Skinner Research Team |
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An interdisciplinary research team led by professors of anthropology, geography, and history is conducting spatial analyses of regional systems in contemporary China as well as early modern Japan and France. For each project we are constructing a spatial framework, referred to as Hierarchical Regional Space (HRS), building on central place theory from Christaller and regional systems theory from von Thunen. Geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical tools facilitate modeling the core-periphery structures of macroregional systems at multiple hierarchical scales. In the societies under analysis here, the HRS model provides a useful framework for explaining the spatial variation in many demographic and ecological phenomena. |
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Contemporary China
Early Meiji Japan
Early Modern France |
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China's Fertility Transition (Social Science History v23 n1) International Workshop for Historical GIS, 2001 Association for Asian Studies 2000 Geoinformatics '99
Publications by G. William Skinner |
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G. William Skinner (gwskinner@ucdavis.edu) Mark Henderson, Postgraduate Researcher/GIS Analyst Yuan Jianhua, Beijing Institute of Information and Control Tsune Mizoguchi, University of Nagoya Ted Margadant, UC Davis History Wei Wang, Harvard University Lawrence Crissman, ACASIAN, Griffith University, Australia The China Data Center at the University of Michigan CITAS at the University of Washington The China Historical GIS Project based at the Harvard-Yenching Library |