On the future of regional geography

Wood, Gerald

doi:10.5194/gh-54-199-1999

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Price, 2010 as an example with metrics demonstrating the changes that have occurred). The decline has not solely been in the Anglophone world, either (see, for example, Wood, 1999, on Germany). The same demise also applies to some degree to regional science, which wove together geography and economics (Barnes, 2004).…”

Section: Changing Directions?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Geography needs science, science needs Geography

Thomas

2022

Environment and Planning F

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Physical geography continues to have complex relationships both with Geography as a whole and the natural sciences. At a time when the nature and future of physical geography and its sub-disciplines has been questioned, I explore these changing relationships and their impacts on the discipline itself and on our collective ability to understand and address environmental crises. The exploration is through the themes of disciplinary shape and institutional change, physical geography’s content and interactions, and how its practitioners badge themselves in an increasingly inter- even trans-disciplinary world. I conclude that there is now a fluidity between disciplines in which Geography holds an important place in research addressing key environmental challenges. This is evidenced by records of publication, conferences and employment mobility between the silos of academic departments. More than ever, the challenges facing environment and society today require collective, inclusive, efforts to achieve solutions that are beyond the capacity of a single discipline. Geography’s complexity and frequent rewiring position it well to be part of the research into global grand challenges that require disciplinary agility. Fears over Geography’s shape and practice can be more than offset by the need to contribute to holistic endeavours, so long as vital sub-disciplinary building blocks are not lost in desiloing endeavours.

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Section: Changing Directions?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Geography needs science, science needs Geography

Thomas

2022

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“…Instead of the previously dominant descriptive method, pluralism in the research approach came to the fore in the new regional geography, together with structuralism and humanism as the leading ideas (Vresk 1997). According to Wood (1999), the key features of the new approach to regional geography compared with the traditional school are associated with the theoretical dimension and can amount to three items: the explicit reference to theory, the reciprocal relationship between theory and empirical evidence and the resultant development of theory. Vresk (1997) highlights three groups of new characteristic approaches to regionalization and regional geography.…”

Section: Regional Geography At the End Of The 20th Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further development of the new regional geography has led to the emergence of some completely new trends. Wood (1999) defines five of these trends, which he argues provide a solid foundation for future scientific research in this area. The first trend has a political-economic basis, and refers to the study of the process of spatial restructuring, i.e.…”

Section: Regional Geography At the End Of The 20th Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Positioning of regional geography in the modern system of geographical sciences

Mirić,

Avdić,

Bidžan-Gekić

et al. 2020

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The main objective of this study is to provide a critical insight into the position of regional geography in modern geosciences, i.e. to examine the epistemological, methodological, practical and educational function of this synthetically oriented geographical discipline on a theoretical level. For this purpose, we have reviewed a number of readings selected from various published scientific papers and textbooks, which provide some sort of review of the modern concept of regional geography and the notion of region. The 1980s can be taken as the initial period of revitalization and redefinition of regional geography, when in addition to the traditional approach based on chorology, there was also the so-called new regional geography. The dominant concepts found in both these schools were evaluated by using the method of dialectical analysis and synthesis, on the basis of which the guidelines were proposed for future positioning of the spatial determination of the region within the geographical sciences. The general conclusion is that regional geography should not be viewed exclusively through the prism of idiographic concept, but the necessity would also be to aspire to discover the general spatial correlation patterns and regularities through various regional studies.

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“…A partir da década de 1970 substanciais transformações passaram a acontecer no contexto internacional, modificando a dinâmica socioeconômica e espacial da maior parte das potências mundiais, influenciadas, sobretudo, pelo processo de globalização da economia capitalista que passou a estar em curso, resultado também das transformações no âmbito dos transportes e das comunicações, acelerando o ritmo de vida e das relações econômicas e encurtando as distâncias. As redes geográficas passaram a interconectar diferentes pontos em uma escala planetária; requerendo re-pensar as perspectivas futuras da Geografia Regional (Wood 1999).…”

Section: Dinâmica Recente Da Região Cacaueira Da Bahiaunclassified

Breve panorama econômico e socioterritorial recente da região Cacaueira do Sul do Estado da Bahia, Brasil

Aguiar

2018

Investig. geogr.

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Este artigo tem como principal objetivo apresentar e discutir, a partir de um breve panorama econômico e socioterritorial, os principais fatores que levaram à recente transformação sofrida pela Região Cacaueira da Bahia (Microrregião Ilhéus-Itabuna) e suas implicações na organização do espaço regional. Para que o principal objetivo proposto fosse alcançado, fizeram-se levantamentos bibliográficos e documentais (artigos e livros impressos ou publicados na internet) sobre o tema. Além disso, foram feitos levantamentos de dados secundários de natureza socioeconômica da microrregião em estudo junto a instituições governamentais de planejamento, por meio de técnicas de documentação indireta e levantamento de documento cartográfico (mapa de distribuição da população por municípios segundo o censo de 2010) disponível em site. Os levantamentos bibliográficos e documentais possibilitaram com que fosse feita a fundamentação do artigo na discussão dos resultados. Os dados secundários, tratados e representados por meio de tabelas e gráficos e o documento cartográfico levantado, reforçaram os resultados da pesquisa e as análises feitas. Como resultado obteve-se que nas últimas décadas essa região (microrregião) sofreu substanciais transformações tanto em âmbito econômico quanto também em âmbito socioterritorial, influenciado grandemente pela sua última e até então mais grave crise naquela que por décadas foi a sua principal atividade econômica: a cacauicultura. Tais transformações, no entanto, não se deram apenas e tão somente por esse fator, mas também influenciadas por transformações que já vinham em curso no cenário nacional, bem como no cenário internacional, promovidas em razão do processo de globalização da economia capitalista.

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On the future of regional geography

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Geography needs science, science needs Geography

Geography needs science, science needs Geography

Positioning of regional geography in the modern system of geographical sciences

Breve panorama econômico e socioterritorial recente da região Cacaueira do Sul do Estado da Bahia, Brasil

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