Quantity and Quality in Geography

Spate, O. H. K.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1960.tb00356.x

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“…In search of the roots of this tradition, Spate (1960) submits that "On Airs, Waters and Places" by Hippocrates, a Greek physician of the fifth century B.C., represents one of the first written contributions to the human-environment interaction tradition. His work is based on questions about the relationships between human health and the natural environment.…”

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Teaching Geography's four traditions with Poetry

Donaldson¹

2001

Journal of Geography

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confidence: 98%

Teaching Geography's four traditions with Poetry

Donaldson¹

2001

Journal of Geography

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“…By the early sixties, when the Russian battle-royal over basic geographical philosophy was raging, a different one, sometimes imprecisely dubbed "The Quantitative Revolution", was in full swing in the United States and was in the process of being diffused to other corners of the world (Gould, 1969, Spate, 1960. Obviously this movement has had a profound impact on the theory and practice of geography, for good or ill, and has aroused considerable passion, and this is not the place to begin to evaluate its nature and results.…”

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The unity of geography in the USA and the USSR

Hooson

1977

GeoJournal

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The discipline of geography, both ancient and "new", is periodically subject to centrifugal tendencies, threatening its integrity and cohesion as a subject. From very different traditions, this question of philosophical "unity" has lain at the heart of many controversies and re-examinations of the value and "place" of geography in the Soviet Union and the United States in recent years, both as an academic subject and with respect to its practical applicability. This article attempts a comparative and personal view of what has happened to geography, mainly over the last quarter of a century, in these two countries, focussed on this "unity" question.

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“…Nonetheless, such research has focused on particular resources, and not on the development of theory relating spatial characteristics to commons problems across the full range of resource types. 2 Too, geographers have tended not to focus on a systematic understanding of the commons problem, especially at the theoretic level, despite the fact that resource issues (Zimmerman 1933;Harvey 1977), human/ environmental interaction (Spate 1960), and spatial relations (Pattison 1964;Taaffe 1974) have all formed long and important traditions in geographic thought.…”

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The Geography of the Commons: The Role of Scale and Space

Giordano

2003

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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The ''tragedy of the commons'' is a concept familiar to students of resource management, and many academic disciplines have devoted considerable attention to its understanding and solution. Despite a long tradition of concern with issues directly related to the problem, the field of geography has been relatively silent in the commons literature, especially on the theoretic front. The present article attempts to address this shortcoming by applying geographic methodologies-particularly as related to scale and space-to an understanding of the phenomenon. The article first demonstrates the role of sociopolitical scale in defining the commons problem and then develops a typology classifying common resources into one of three categories-open access, fugitive, and migratory-based on spatial relationships between resources and resource users. The article shows that the geographic nature of the commons problem for any particular resource depends on the sociopolitical scale at which it is assessed, and suggests that solutions to commons problems should vary both by scale and by spatial nature.

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Quantity and Quality in Geography

Cited by 29 publications

References 3 publications

Teaching Geography's four traditions with Poetry

Teaching Geography's four traditions with Poetry

The unity of geography in the USA and the USSR

The Geography of the Commons: The Role of Scale and Space

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