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doi:10.22028/D291-23279
Title: | Geographic science and the development of its aims and methods : an essay |
Author(s): | Fliedner, Dietrich |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
SWD key words: | Sozialgeographie Diskurs Radikaler Konstruktivismus Regionale Geographie Geisteswissenschaften |
Free key words: | autopoietic systems complexity systems hermeneutics causality |
DDC notations: | 550 Earth sciences and geology |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | In a general sense, Geography deals with a number of thematically differently defined phenomena on the surface of the earth (as just a glance at any map show). These phenomena which come into contact with, overlap and restrict one another. Their chronological, hierarchic and spatial co-existence are affected by man and nature, who interact and initiate processes which in turn alter their different environments. Seen from this point of view, the task of the geographer may be defined as drawing attention to the complexity of this reality and explaining how mankind, in the course of his cultural evolution, has been able to assert himself by adaptation and formation of structures. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-10351 hdl:20.500.11880/23335 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-23279 |
Date of registration: | 6-Mar-2007 |
Notes: | Suppl. 2 zu: Fliedner, Dietrich: Processes constitute our complex reality. - 2. ed. - Saarbrücken, 2005 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Geographie |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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