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Arguments regarding the social construction of nature could be made more precise and more convincing by using the verb ‘construct’ and focusing on processes of constructing instead of the noun ‘construction’ and the outcome of those processes.
This paper seeks to clarify what is meant by the ‘social construction of nature’, which has become a crude but common term used to describe very different understandings of nature, knowledge and the world. I distinguish two broad varieties of construction talk in the social sciences: construction-as-refutation and ...
1 Ιουν 2000 · In this article I review the important literature on scale construction and argue for enlarging our scope for understanding scale to include the complex processes of social repro- duction and ...
31 Αυγ 2015 · While the implications of landscape connectivity are self-evident for conservation, they are also important for physical geography since a proper understanding of landscape patterns and processes allows for better landscape management practices, which are at the core of geography.
natural sciences, critical to progress in understanding and ameliorating human-environment interactions. It remains remarkably unclear exactly what scale means and how to use it, however, and within geography the confusion is particularly acute. Biophysical geographers understand and employ scale much as ecologists do (where it is also
1 Μαρ 2020 · The relationship between geographical patterns and processes is the fundamental pathway for integrating geographic studies into sustainability research. Geographical processes, such as the water cycle, soil erosion, urbanization and globalization can occur across scales and locations.
22 Σεπ 2019 · This chapter also discusses the inclusion of urbanization to the global sustainable development agenda, as well as the importance of geospatial technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, for urban monitoring towards sustainable urban development.
