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Geography
Geography's Advantages Over Other Disciplines
Advantage | Description |
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1. Synthesizing | We are curious about a wide range of approaches. Geographic training nurtures and expands these traits. Generally assume that any subject matter may be important. All elements must be taken into account. |
2. Complexity of Explanations | Geographers experience a wide range of conflicting insights. Sensitive to need for complex and multiform explanations. Essential view for environmental problems. No discipline can answer all the questions. |
3. Range of Information Sources | Environmental understanding needs diverse kinds of information. From dispersal mechanisms of specific chemical agents. Geographers are exposed to and better trained in a variety of data gathering techniques. Field obersvation, lab experiments, inverviews |
4. Location and Spatial Relationships | All environmental information is spatial information. Only way it can be interpreted is through GIS. Dis |
5. Human Beings as Part of Environment | More than any other profession geogrphy is aware of teh human environmental interface. Human/Environmental relationship is a two way street. we respond to the environment through the screeens of perception and culture Have to understand and teach inteface |