Das Konzept der Ökologie in der amerikanischen Geographie

Abstract: In recent times, interest in the ecological thought pattern has been revived in German geography by chorological research (Troll/Paffen) as well as by studies in social geography. There is, however, only little knowledge of the fact that a special body of ecological theory was developed in American geography between 1900 and 1930, thus anticipating the spread of ecological thought in European geography. This period is generally neglected in the presentation of the history of geography and mostly restricted to the name of H. H. Barrows, but as a whole deserves the merit of first introducing a certain amount of ecological thought into geographic theory. Theoretical argument during the phase when geography defined itself as 'a science of relationships' centred in the quest for an organizing concept of the newly developed branch of human geography, and later on for geography in general. Human geography, especially after the decline of geographical determinism, had come to emphasize the.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1520

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Das Konzept der Ökologie in der amerikanischen Geographie ; volume:21 ; number:2 ; year:1967 ; Erdkunde ; 21, Heft 2 (1967)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Fuchs, Gerhard

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1967.02.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291145525.863926727878
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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