GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Integrated Geography, Political Ecology, Cybernetics
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Traditional approaches to environmental geography: harold mackinder (1887) Known to be a founder of geography. Argues that geography can bridge one of the greatest gaps: namely separating the natural sciences and the study of humanity. Defines geography as the science whose main function is to trace the interaction of man (women don"t count) in society and so much of his environment as varies locally. For a long time environmental geography was about studying the interaction of the environment. Environmental geography: 2 approaches: the symmetrical approach. Trying to kind of give equal weight to both sides. Hard to achieve because of the immensity of each issue. The symmetrical approach is also difficult to achieve because different studies contain different methods of study. Difficult to achieve because of specialization and different research methods and assumptions. We tend to live as if knowledge could be settled, as if there is only one true knowledge are striving for tim dent.
