Human geography similarities

Overview

There has also been an increasing stream of work on the interactions between human societies and physical environments—long a central concern for some geographers, as illustrated by Clarence Glacken’s magisterial treatment of Western interpretations of nature in Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (1967).
Human abuse and despoliation of the environment are important themes introduced in their modern context by a pioneering American conservationist, George Perkins Marsh, in Man and Nature (1864), but they were minor concerns among most geographers until the late 20th century.

The contemporary discipline

The academic discipline of geography is extremely broad in subject matter and approaches; it contains specialists covering diverse subjects but sharing concerns over places, spaces, and environments.
Indeed, the discipline is now fragmented into a substantial number of separate subcommunities among some of which there is relatively little contact.
The Association of American Geographers has more than 50 separate specialty groups, for example, catering to its members’ particular interests.
Some physical geographers have stronger links outside their discipline than within it.
The International Geographical Union—based in Rome at the “Home of Geography,” provided by the Italian Geographical Society—has some two dozen commissions and about a dozen study groups.

What does a geographer look at?

What is an example of a physical geography?

What is the difference between physical and Human Geography?