Agricultural Geography
Agricultural geography is the study of the spatial patterns and processes related to agriculture. It examines the distribution of crops, farming systems, and land use, as well as the interactions between agriculture and the environment. This field also explores the social, economic, and political factors that influence agricultural practices and their impact on rural and urban landscapes.
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eBook - ePubGeofusion 2.0
The Power of Geography in the Economic and Geopolitical World Order
- Norbert Csizmadia, Bence Gáspár(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- PublishDrive(Publisher)
...M. Yeates asserted that “geography can be regarded as a science concerned with the rational development and testing of theories that explain and predict the spatial distribution and location of various characteristics on the surface of the earth” (Yeates, M. 1968). In the mid-1990s, Harm de Blij said that “geography is the science of place. Its vision is grand, its view panoramic. It sweeps the surface of the Earth, charting the physical, organic, and cultural terrains.” Also in the mid-1990s, the most prestigious geographical grouping, the American Geographical Society (AAG) defined the study of geography as “an integrative discipline that brings together the physical and human dimensions of the world in the study of people, places, and environments” (American Geographical Society, 1994). Not long after, Haggett argued in the aforementioned work that the study of geography is the examination of varied correlations. It describes what type of places are where, and answers why they are there and how they came to be the way they are, and what it causes that they are there. The interdisciplinary nature of geography as described in Geography: A Global Synthesis is presented in Figure 1. My research develops Haggett’s ideas shown in red as well as the related sciences to which a link is established (blue). This figure also shows how Haggett’s arguments on the complex and varied nature of geography paved the way for the advanced, multi-disciplinary nature of geofusion. Figure 1: The related of geographical synthesis Source: Author’s work based on Peter Haggett’s Geography: A Global Synthesis Geography as a tool for getting to know the world To me, geography is “a tool for getting to know the world”. In the classic approach, the two main branches of geography are physical geography and social geography, and both can be divided into general geography and regional geography...
- Nuala C. Johnson, Richard H. Schein, Jamie Winders(Authors)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- Wiley-Blackwell(Publisher)
...This chapter is not, however, meant as a comprehensive introduction to the subdiscipline of cultural geography. Instead, it is an invitation to examine the field’s ever-changing contours through the ensuing essays. Cultural geography has been a foundational building block of human geography since the discipline formally was established in the nineteenth century. Documenting spatial patterns in human interaction with, responses to, and transformations of the natural landscape, raising questions about how landscape itself was shaped by and shaped social dynamics, and problematizing the ideas of culture, landscape, and nature have been cultural geography’s contributions to the ways that human geographers have thought about the world around them, past and present. Today, the line between human geography as a discipline and cultural geography as a subdiscipline is blurred to the point that cultural geography is human geography in some corners of our field. Recent intellectual and scholarly developments within geography have drawn cultural geographers closer to the fold and to deeper engagements with colleagues and ideas once thought beyond cultural geography’s purview – political, economic, historical, or environmental geography, for example. These connections have been strengthened through cultural geography’s embrace of and relevance to the so-called cultural and spatial turns across the human sciences as well as its engagement with social theory and concepts of interest to a broad range of scholars within and beyond the discipline. In short, cultural geographers today study nearly every aspect of human geography and do so in ways that simultaneously reinforce the subdiscipline’s place in geography and question the logic and locations of its boundaries. Cultural geography is itself deeply geographic in terms of what places and spaces cultural geographers study and how cultural-geographic scholarship is conducted across institutional and national contexts...
eBook - ePub- Peter Knight(Author)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...Chapter 5 The Nature of Geography The discipline Different ideas about the nature of a subject, about its constituent elements, concepts, ways of establishing propositions, procedures and criteria of value lead to different ways of teaching it. The suggestion that school subjects should mirror, albeit imperfectly and dimly, the mature disciplines by introducing children to those disciplines’ characteristic ways of thinking and working, has only confirmed this link between the teacher’s understanding of the adult study and the way in which the school subject is handled. So, consideration of primary geography needs to be related to an understanding of the academic discipline, not on the assumption that the former must perfectly reflect the latter, but rather on the assumption that they are both part of the same family, having things in common as well as things which distinguish them from each other. One of the principal tasks of geography, in its early days was, in the words of Bradbeer (1991, p.13) ‘to synthesise the growing body of information about the earth, its natural features and its peoples’. Here physical geography and human geography met, and no-where was this better seen than in the USA where geography was dominated by environmental determinism, that is, by the view that physical geography shaped human life and that geography was a scientific account of the regularities in this relationship (Smith, 1989). In the inter-war years this gave way to regional studies, or chorology. Regional studies, in which all knowledge of a place was drawn together, were defined as geography’s distinctive feature but since these studies tended to be descriptive, they were faulted for providing ‘no more than a superficial analysis, and the division of labour within the discipline, whereby people specialised on different areas of the earth was both inefficient and ineffective’ (Johnston, 1991, p.51). The definition of a ‘region’ was also problematic...
