1st Edition

Regional Geography Theory and Practice

By Roger Minshull Copyright 1967
174 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

There is only one region--the surface of the earth--on which mankind finds its home. Yet, although much effort is devoted by geographers towards the study of this diversified environment as a whole, it has long seemed necessary, by the methods of aespecial' or aeregional geography', to study its component parts. And although nature abhors lines, geographers might appear to adore them, so busily... Read more
Regional Geography; 1: The Regional Method of Description 1; 2: Regions as Real Objects; 3: Formal and Functional Regions; 4: The Ranking of Regions; 5: Regionalism; 6: The Nature of Regional Geography; 7: Alternatives to an Inadequate Concept; 8: The Influence of Methods of Mapping; 9: The Compage; 10: Conclusions

Biography

Roger Minshull