GEOG 3210 Lecture Notes - Rain Shadow, Thomas Griffith Taylor, Environmental Determinism
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They describe agricultural landscapes: they differ methodology. Weaver used a high speed computer to realize when certain thresholds were met to understand ag systems and landscapes. Early example of computing technology to understand. Reeds used tables of ag data and reports. Early attempts by geography to study agricultural systems agricultural landscapes. Objective is to present an overview of two perspectives that dominated agricultural geography in the period leading up to wwii. Environmental determinism: prominent in geography and to a slightly lesser extent in. Anthropology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries: core ideas can be traced to the greeks (strabo), but gained popularity after origins of species was published. Classification and agricultural typologies: classification is central to the scientific study of phenomena, typologies are an early for of model . Model is a simplification of reality: strabo argued that climatic conditions influenced the psychological disposition for various races . Early work by environmental determinists drew on the theory of.
