Theory and Explanation in Geography Yeung Hardback Wiley–Blackwell 9781119845492

Theory and Explanation in GeographyAuthor(s): Henry Wai-chung Yeung\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9781119845492, 978-1119845492\nSynopsis\nTHEORY AND EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY \""With this book Henry Yeung puts Geography back into the driver's seat of new theory development. Foregrounding mid-range theories and mechanism-based explanations, he offers a pragmatic approach that has the capacity to shape the wider social sciences for years to come. The timing of this intervention is pitch-perfect, as scholars search for ways to understand and intervene in an increasingly distrustful and polarized world.\"" KATHARYNE MITCHELL, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA \""In Theory and Explanation in Geography Yeung presents us with a rare thing - an argument for geographical theory with forms of causal explanation at its heart. The book is both modest and ambitious. Modest in its.