Economic and Cultural Complexes of China

The article introduces the notion of the economic and cultural complex (ECC) as a unit for integrated economic and cultural analysis in human geography, and develops a formalized method for the identification of such complexes with the help of cartographic regionalization and statistical clustering...

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Main Author: Varvara Krechetova
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2011-06-01
Series:Cybergeo
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/23808
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spelling doaj-67b2702053e84143819cc86d9dd5b3a52020-11-24T21:34:07ZdeuUnité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-citésCybergeo1278-33662011-06-0110.4000/cybergeo.23808Economic and Cultural Complexes of ChinaVarvara KrechetovaThe article introduces the notion of the economic and cultural complex (ECC) as a unit for integrated economic and cultural analysis in human geography, and develops a formalized method for the identification of such complexes with the help of cartographic regionalization and statistical clustering on the basis of ethnic, cultural and economic characteristics. Economic and cultural complexes in China are identified and studied. There are 20 economic and cultural complexes and two limitrophe zones, which demonstrate that China is a more diverse country than what is reflected by other purely economic or cultural types of regionalization.http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/23808clusterhuman geographyregionalization/regionalisationmethodology
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author Varvara Krechetova
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Economic and Cultural Complexes of China
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title Economic and Cultural Complexes of China
title_short Economic and Cultural Complexes of China
title_full Economic and Cultural Complexes of China
title_fullStr Economic and Cultural Complexes of China
title_full_unstemmed Economic and Cultural Complexes of China
title_sort economic and cultural complexes of china
publisher Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités
series Cybergeo
issn 1278-3366
publishDate 2011-06-01
description The article introduces the notion of the economic and cultural complex (ECC) as a unit for integrated economic and cultural analysis in human geography, and develops a formalized method for the identification of such complexes with the help of cartographic regionalization and statistical clustering on the basis of ethnic, cultural and economic characteristics. Economic and cultural complexes in China are identified and studied. There are 20 economic and cultural complexes and two limitrophe zones, which demonstrate that China is a more diverse country than what is reflected by other purely economic or cultural types of regionalization.
topic cluster
human geography
regionalization/regionalisation
methodology
url http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/23808
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