Problems Of Metageography

Metageography is concerned with study of the common basis of geographical regularities and the potentialities of geography as a science. From the viewpoint of metageography, geographical space is the eigenspace of geographical entities. These entities are multiscalar, and there are universal threshold scales associated with different sets of regularities. Each geographical entity has two aspects: it reflects general laws and it is unique. A unique entity has structure, and structure can be expressed by formulas containing spatial parameters. Parametrization, as a method expressing geographical singularity, is suitable only for simple systems. Geographical systems are complex and can be conceptualized only by the method of successive approximations. This requires the development of a calculus of spatial structures. Stochastic analysis is the only sound approach to the investigation of complex spatial systems.