The environment, a new geographical paradigm

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Many geographers still define geography as the study of human relationships, nature. At the end of the nineteenth century, Paul Vidal de la Blache distinguished physical geography and human geography. Geologists distinguish themselves by distinguishing physical features, while geographers study physiqal forms on the Earth's surface. The German school led by Frederic Bratzler speaks of biogeography as 'geography of life is the unity of life based on the need for discipline which includes all forms of life'.

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[...] The environment, a new geographical paradigm The environment, a new geographical paradigm I. Introduction i. The human nature in geography ii. The legacy naturalist iii. Determine and possibility II. From the middle of the Environment i. The natural environment as the physical environment ii. From natural environment to the geographical environment iii. As to the geographical environment III. The report approaches nature - society i. The face-to-face between nature and society ii The ecological renewal iii. The divorce between geography and ecology iv. [...]

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[...] The connections do not, however, are among these factors, the result will be limited to the morphological study of middle early twentieth From environment natural environment to the geographical It passes gradually to the geographical environment, with the idea that the environment is not so natural as that, because of the human impacts of space. Alain Demangeon recalls that the physical environment is not pure. It defines the geographical environment as the physical changes + his and sometimes its fundamental changes made to the physical environment. In this context, human geography is the study of relationships between man and the geographical environment in which it operates. There are no geographical environment without men As to the geographical environment The environment comes from the Anglo-Saxon. [...]

[...] Geographers exclude ecology, at least in its classic form, although some geographers resume concepts: adaptation, or methods: systems analysis. We find the term ecology in the School of American geographer, to discuss the so-called cultural ecology: the man and his environment would be a cultural construct. Conclusion: nature and society: a process of hybridization "It is only human geography of nature" Jacques Levy We are rather a policy of hybridization with the natural and social. In this relationship, the analysis does not rely on the human impact, but would rather an invention of a permanent nature consistent with the logic of society, with the idea that nature is a construct of society. [...]