Geography as Ecology

Abstract

The major theme and the core theory of classical geography, that is, of mainstream geography from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, can be summed up roughly as follows: the interaction and symbiosis between regional modes of life and entire cultures on the one hand and their concrete ecological milieu on the other. One could also express it using some rather misleading set phrases, namely, the man-nature, man-space or man-environment theme.