In Search of Synthesis

Bibliographic Data

ID8376802
AuthorsPatricia Gober (Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume90
Issue1
Pages1-11
Publication date2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/0004-5608.00181
OpenAlexW2078000859
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited11

The American scientific community currently is being challenged to provide the basic and applied research that is necessary for the nation to make better decisions related to the environment. Concern with the environment has led to the demand for a more synthetic perspective, one that identifies linkages among the cultural, social, political, economic, physical, biological, chemical, and geological systems that govern our world. Geography has a historic opportunity to position itself at the nexus of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and to lead the search for synthesis. In order to achieve this goal, however, we must leave the isolated intellectual realms into which we have retreated, dampen the fires of criticism that have polarized us, rethink the way graduate education is structured, foster new networks of communication, and develop a disciplinary culture that values both specialized analytical research and broader integrative research

Criticism · Discipline · Economics · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Natural (archaeology) · Nexus (standard) · Order (exchange) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Law · Research Data Management Practices · Research, Science, and Academia · Species Distribution and Climate Change