Keeping human and physical geography together
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23600299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trevor J Barnes (0000-0003-4396-5470, corresponding author), Trevor Barnes |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 51-65 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Making Geography Matter (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003343240-5 |
| OpenAlex | W4407099617 |
| ISBN | 9781003343240 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
From the late 1950s, the physical geographer, Richard Chorley, and the human geographer, Peter Haggett, both at the Department of Geography, Cambridge University, fundamentally reconceived the geographical project. Through their teaching, research, and writing that included a significant number of student texts, they moved geography away from its historical- descriptive practice of listing geographical facts within prose-driven accounts to making it an exact science like physics or chemistry. Their “new geography” would instead be explanatory, theoretical, mathematical, and model-based, applying equally to both human and physical geography. As a result, the traditional two halves of the discipline that were often uneasily connected would be seamlessly joined by a single common scientific method.
Economic geography · Geography · Human geography · Geographic Information Systems Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |