Everything about Regional Geography totally explained
Regional geography is a study of regions throughout the world in order to understand or define the unique characteristics of a particular region which consists of natural as well as human elements. Attention is paid also to
regionalization which covers the proper techniques of space delineation into
regions.
Regional geography is also considered as a certain approach to study in geographical sciences (similar to
quantitative geography or bunch of
critical geographies). This approach to study was prevailing during the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century also known as a period of prevailing regional geography paradigm when regional geography took the central position in geographical sciences. It was later criticised for its descriptiveness and the lack of theory (regional geography as an empirical approach of geographical sciences). Massive criticism was leveled against this approach in the fifties and during the
quantitative revolution. Main critics were Kimble and
Schaefer.
Regional geography paradigm has had impact on many geographical sciences (see regional
economic geography or regional
geomorphology). Todays regional geography is still thought in some universities as study of the major regions of the world, such as Northern and Latin America, Europe, and Asia and their countries. In addition, the notion of a city-regional approach to the study of geography gained some credence in the mid-1990s after works by people such as
Saskia Sassen, although it was also criticized, for example by
Peter Storper.
Notable regional geographers were
Alfred Hettner from Germany with his concept of
chorology,
Vidal de la Blache from France with the
possibilism approach (possibilism as a softer notion of
environmental determinism) and United States geographer
Richard Hartshorne with his areal differentiation concept.
Some geographers have also attempted to reintroduce a certain amount of regionalism since the 1980s. This involves a complex definition of
regions and their interactions with other
scales.
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