Noting that human-environment relations can be identified as one of three main thrusts of the discipline of geography, this article reviews the nature of human geography and the role environmental analysis plays within it. (JDH)

Because there is usually much vote-switching across a series of elections, it is possible to produce a matrix of the "flow of the vote." Establishes a 1972-76 flow matrix for the United States and concludes that there were indeed strong regional components in the flow of the vote. (CS)

Many fieldtrips are designed so that students might have direct experience of "the landscape" and/or "the people". But as Scott (1992) warns, experience of "the real world" is never transparent and unmediated. It is with this central idea in mind that the author (re)examines the epistemology of two human geography…

Within Britain, geography as a discipline has been criticized recently for failing either to add to or teach knowledge about the world at large. Instead it has concentrated first at university and then in schools on spatial social science, with examples drawn overwhelmingly from the white Western world. The recent history of geography is reviewed…

Ask any teacher about their life as a teacher and they will begin with their experience of place. "First I taught there and then I moved there", the matter of time often hazy or more peripheral to the story of place. As Deleuze and Guattari (1987) argue, becomings are matters of geography more than history, our lives punctuated by…

This essay examines how undergraduate economic geography courses in Anglo-American institutions traditionally frame economic activities in developing regions and asserts that mainstream approaches have devalued the complexity and diversity of economic geographies in the Global South. Focusing on developmentalism as a commonly used heuristic frame,…

The purpose of this study is to explore perceptions of return migration experiences and gain knowledge from rural residents who have left to obtain a college education and start careers in non-rural areas, and who then returned to their rural hometowns with the social and economic benefits of a college education, and other valuable resources. This…

The importance and significance of the environmental education, as one of today's accentuated assignments, is unquestionable. The reasons for these are approached from different perspectives, both by specialists and by educators/pedagogues, but also by the entire society. In this article --selecting from various possibilities--we shall demonstrate…

There is a lack of objective and detailed measurement of the geographical patterns of economic activity. The need for countries to establish geographical institutions to monitor and measure social and economic problems is discussed. For address of journal see SO 504 028. (Author/RM)

This article discusses practical contributions which geographers can make to world societies in social and economic areas such as that of development planning. For address of journal see SO 504 028. (RM)

The geographer's growing concern with social issues and public policy provides considerable opportunities and challenges in the field of mapping human phenomena. The author discusses how a geographer's skills can be applied to the description and interpretation of social problems. For address of journal see SO 504 028. (Author/RM)

A cartographic description of American worker protest from 1880 to 1981 highlights three changes in the geographical structure of worker protest: a cyclical-geographical realignment of worker protest, two regions susceptible to protest during the third cycle, and the geographical retreat of anti-strike traditions during the past century.…

The article offers a description of a one semester college-level course in cultural geography. The outline is based on six themes--cultural analysis in geography, cultural universals, perception of the cultural environment, cultural diffusion, folk culture and popular culture, and humans and the land. (DB)

Suggests that instructors need to develop a clear statement of what human geography is and includes. Attempts to establish a basis for human geography as an academic discipline. Argues that different philosophies are complementary, and each can add to the exploration of the spatial emphasis in human geography. (DK)

In this paper we return to an issue often discussed in the literature regarding the relationship between highway expansion and population change. Typically it simply is assumed that this relationship is well established and understood. We argue, following a thorough review of the relevant literature, that the notion that highway expansion leads to…