Reflections on optimisation in geography
Maignant, Gilles
As soon as we have to make a choice or take a decision, the optimisation concept becomes major. Stemming from the operational research, the optimisation was little approached in geography, probably because the relations between human and nature are complex. So the optimisation in geography is the result of the study of this concept in various sciences. Some geographers'' works have already studied the optimisation but it is in a quite other pe...