Geographic Training for the Postwar World
A Proposal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4831422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard S Wilson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1948 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 575 |
| Publication date | 1948-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/211444 |
| OpenAlex | W2313356144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
ALMOST a quarter of a century has elapsed since publication of Carl Sauer's Morphology of Landscape.' During this time Sauer's thesis has served as a frame of reference for geographic training. Lately as a result of war a critical evaluation of geography and professional geographic training has occupied minds of many geographers, and numerous articles have appeared in professional journals.2 Much of discussion revolves about inability of American geographers to join systematic and regional geography as coequals in research and graduate training. Regional geography has been accepted as final attainable goal of all systematic geography: concern of geographers with all parts of cultural and natural landscapes is in reality a unitary view, the final goal [of which] . . . is regional geography.3 This opinion can be traced to Strabo, who emphasized unity of landscape and concluded that geographers were rightly concerned with
Economic geography · Geography · Meteorology · Training (meteorology · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |