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Geography's Advantages Over Other Disciplines

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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.  
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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.  
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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  
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4. Location and Spatial Relationships   All environmental information is spatial information. Only way it can be interpreted is through GIS. Dis  
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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  
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