Geography as human ecology

Abstract

This chapter examines one aspect of the ecological approach to geographical methodology, namely to what extent it provides a unifying link between current human and physical geography. However, the notion that geography can be justified as an application of the ecological model to man in society is more deeply ingrained than ever before. However, the classical studies in regional geography demonstrate that it was only before the middle of the nineteenth century, at least in the western world, that man’s relationship to the habitable earth could be even approximately interpreted within an ecological model. Human geography is no simple extension of biogeography; things have gone too far for that – if they were ever so. If political geography has acquired a new lease of life, no branch of the discipline has more exemplified the continuing difficulties associated with the geographer’s traditional concern with the spatial artifacts of man’s activity than does historical geography.

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