Environmental geography
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Environmental geography examines interlinkages between human and natural systems. This discipline combines parts of human geography and physical geography.
Introduction
History of environmental geography
Environmental determinism
Separation of human and physical geography
Environmental movement
Renewed study in nature-society relations
Branches of environmental geography
Environmental hazards
Energy and resource geography
Cultural and political ecology
Environmental perception
Environmental perception is the study of both individual and group understandings of the environment, the creation of those understandings, and their impacts on decisionmaking.
Systems theory
Landscape studies
Marxian environmental geography
Sustainability studies
Environmental governance
Environmental justice
Selected list of notable environmental geographers
- Gilbert Fowler White (1911-2006) - central figure in natural hazards research
- Carl Sauer (1889-1975) - developed idea of cultural landscapes which evolved into cultural ecology
- Yi-fu Tuan (1930-) - seminal work in environmental perception
- David Harvey (1935-) - integrated the environment into Marxist geography