Geography as Human Ecology
A Decade of Progress in a Quarter Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip W Porter (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-39 |
| Publication date | 1978-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000276427802200102 |
| OpenAlex | W2024767327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 90 |
T]he contest between geographers and their adversaries is identical with the old controversy between historical and physical methods. One party claims that the ideal aim of science ought to be the discovery of general laws; the other maintains that it is the investigation of phenomena themselves.... While physical science arises from the logical and aesthetic demands of the human mind, cosmography has its source in the personal feelings of man towards the world, towards the phe nomena surrounding him. We may call this an "affective" impulse in contrast to the aesthetic impulse. Goethe expressed this idea with admirable clearness: "It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of it, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true." -F. Boas, 1887
Action (physics) · Aesthetics · CONTEST · Epistemology · Feeling · Impulse (physics) · Naturalism · Object (grammar) · Phenomenon · Reflexive pronoun · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Philosophy
Perspectivas cultural, conductista y ecológica en el estudio de la organización social
Place and People
Croissance allométrique et dynamique spatiale
Adaptation, Variation, and Cultural Geography∗
Common Themes in the Work of Gilbert White and John Dewey
Place and People
Author's Response
Historical geography and the society/nature “problematic”
Environmental perception
The Excavation of Three ‘Narrow Blade’ Mesolithic Sites in the Southern Pennines, England
The role of biomass in shifting cultivation
Social Perspectives on Deforestation, Land Use Change, and Economic Development in an Expanding Agricultural Frontier in Northern Argentina
The odd couple
Australian geography seen from afar
Human Geography and the “New Ecology”
The Specialist–Synthesis Approach to the Revival of Geography
A marginal man and his central contributions
American Geographers and World War II
Environment
General system theory
Perspective on the Nature of Geography
Spatial organization
The theory of economic growth
Hill Farmers of Nigeria (American Ethnological Society Monographs ; No 46)
Place and People
The Flew of Energy in an Agricultural Society
Natural evaporation from open water, bare soil and grass
Energy and Economic Myths
The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations
The Interpretation of Cultures
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
American Geography Inventory and Prospect
The African husbandman
Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth Volume I
Natural hazards, local, national, global
Between land and water
A Problem in Malayo‐Polynesian Social Organization 2
Capital
Nouvelle géographie universelle; la terre et les hommes
The Ecological Basis for Subsistence Change among the Sandawe of Tanzania
Human ecology
Rejection of fish as human food in Africa
Dimensions of Sandawe diet
The hazards of scientism
The Mountains of Southernmost Africa
Interdependent Development
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment
A Clarification of Carrying Capacity Formulae
Population Pressure and Agricultural Intensity∗
Geography and Ecology
The Social Roots of Dispersed Settlement in Northern Ghana
Man Against His Environment
Ecology and Spatial Analysis
Geography as Human Ecology
Environmentalism and Determinism
Exceptionalism in Geography
Social justice and the city
Geographic Perspectives in Anthropology
Ecology and Spatial Analysis
Man-Environment Relationships in Anthropology and Geography∗
A Subsistence Crop Geography of Uganda
Die Geographie
The Ecology of the Gwembe Tonga
River Blindness in Nangodi, Northern Ghana
Microclimate Management by Traditional Farmers
An Approach toward a Rational Classification of Climate
The Theory of Economic Growth
The Study of the Geography of Disease
Geography and a Crowding World
Environmental Planning
Man, Medicine, and Environment
The Floodplain and the Seashore
Land and Poverty in the Middle East
Introduction
Principles of Human Geography
Toward a Reformulation of Boserup's Theory of Agricultural Change
Geography and Human Ecology
Struggle for Land. Agriculture and Group Territories Among the Chimbu of the New Guinea Highlands
Geographie du sous-developpement
Man, Medicine and Environment
Moala. Culture and Nature on a Fijian Island
The Clans of Nangodi
Chance, Necessity, and Mode of Production
Environmental Potentials and Economic Opportunities-A Background for Cultural Adaptation
Theory and Strategy in the Study of Cultural Adaptability
Cultural Ecology and Ethnography
New Directions in Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
Agrarian Ecology
The Impact of Human Activities on the Physical and Social Environments
Environment, Subsistence, and Society
The Ecological Approach in Anthropology
Environmentalism Versus Geography
From reproduction to production
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2019 (48) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |