Environmental determinism
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Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism, is the view that the physical environment sets limits on human social development. A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography therefore became focused on the study of how the physical environment affected, or even caused, human culture and activities.
See also
- Timeline of environmental history
- Environmental sociology
- Cultural ecology
- Cultural materialism (anthropology)
- Sociocultural evolution
- Ecological anthropology
- Social determinism
- Biological determinism
- Cultural determinism
- Technological determinism
- Determinism
- Biological determination (sociology)
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