آداب الرافدين (Dec 1980)
The modern geography
Abstract
New geography is a concept that has been talked about a lot in recent years, but has become synonymous with other concepts such as theoretical geography or quantitative revolution. These two terms, and if they were used in recent times to express new shifts in geography, they only cover half of the truth, for they are a change in the approach. In substance. In view of the poverty of the Arab library on studies that show and explain such concepts, I think it is necessary to address them in an attempt to clarify what these new concepts and trends in geography are, whether in relation to its objectives or research methods. Geography has gone through different stages in the history of its development, so different concepts emerged for it, as it pursues different models for the concept of its subject: environment, regional study, site analysis, regional planning, and for nearly a quarter of a century, very rapid transformations occurred in the objectives and methods of geographic research, so what some are called Geographers (the new geography) which is a quantitative method that uses statistical and mathematical methods in its analyzes to reach the results of research by adopting an accurate measurement of geographical phenomena and their components. This new geography came after geographers became possessed of mathematical and statistical means that enable them to interact with large numbers of data and variables in order to reach a measure of the degree of spatial correlation of the phenomenon with other phenomena because the geographical phenomenon does not exist in isolation from the rest of the other geographical phenomena.
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