Regional geography

From Geography

Regional geography is the study of world regions. it represents social, economic, but is more focused on the cultural and political relations in spatial categories as spatial realities. Regional geography pays attention to the unique characteristics of a particular region such as natural elements, human elements, and regionalization which covers the techniques of delineating space into regions. Traditionally this form of geography referred to its object of study as a pre-given entity. This has changed in recent times and geographers such as Anthony Giddens see regional geography as a contextual analysis of the social and economic processes of different regions. regional geography now has two types contextual regional geography and compositional regional geography. Compositional is seen as the traditional one whereas contextual is seen as the answer to its flaws and as the more modern regional geography.

References:

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Werlen, B. (2009). Everyday Regionalizations. In: International Encyclopedia for Human Geography. Elsevier.

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