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Regional geography is a study of regions of all sizes across the Earth. It has a prevailing descriptive character. The main aim is to understand or define the uniqueness or character of a particular region which consists of natural as well as human elements. Attention is paid also to Regionalization which covers the proper techniques of space delimitation into Regions . Regional geography is also considered as a certain approach to study in geographical sciences (similar to Quantitative Geography or bunch of Critical Geographies ). This approach to study was prevailing during the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century also known as a period of prevailing regional geography paradigm when regional geography took the central position in geographical sciences. It was later criticised for its descriptiveness and the lack of theory (regional geography as an empirical approach of geographical sciences). Massive critic against this approach was in the fifties and during the Quantitative Revolution . Main critics were KimbleKimble, G.H.T. (1951): The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept, London Essays in Geography, edts. L.D.Stamp and S.W.Wooldridge, pp. 1951-174. and SchaeferSchaefer, F.K. (1953): Exceptionalism in Geography: A Methodological Examination, A.A.A.G., vol. 43, pp. 226-245.. Notable regional geographers were Alfred Hettner from Germany with his concept of Chorology , Vidal De La Blache from France with the possibilism approach (possibilism as a softer notion of Environmental Determinism ) and United states geographer Richard Hartshorne with his areal differenciation concept. In todays geographical sciences (or geosciences) there are regionally oriented subdisciplins such as regional Economic Geography or regional Geomorphology . Regional geography is thought as study of the major regions of the world, such as Northern and Latin America, Europe, and Asia and their countries. REFERENCES SEE ALSO History Of Geography |
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