The integration of Human and Physical Geography revisited

摘要

Although there are still gulfs between Human and Physical Geographers, in the last three decades interest has burgeoned in a whole series of closely and inextricably related areas which lie at the interface between humans and their environment. These include inter alia seven closely interweaved themes: (1) the study of hazards and disasters and of resilience and vulnerability; (2) global changes and their causes, mitigation, and adaption; (3) Earth System Science; (4) human impacts; (5) the Anthropocene; (6) environmental history and environmental influences on human history and prehistory, including migration and settlement abandonment; and (7) the study and appreciation of landscape. These areas can act as foci for a more unified and valuable Geography.