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Region as a Socio-environmental System

An Introduction to a Systemic Regional Geography

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Dov Nir

    1. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 16)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-4
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  2. The State of the Art

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 5-27

  3. Concepts of Regional Thought in Geography

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 29-42

  4. The ‘Quantitative Revolution’: Regional Geography at its Apogee

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 43-57

  5. Regions, Zones, Boundaries

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 59-73

  6. Region as a System

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 75-87

  7. Towards a Model of the Region as an Open System

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 89-105

  8. The Philosophy Beyond the Regional Model

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 107-112

  9. Methods in Regional Geography

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 113-147

  10. Contribution of Regional Geography to Society

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 149-161

  11. Commitments and Future of Systemic Regional Geography

    • Dov Nir
    Pages 163-165

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 167-183
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2 society would be a free, anarchic society [an - without, archos - ruler], a society in which each individual is responsible for the relationship between himself and the society. By inner persuasion, we must live by making the maximum contri­ bution of our physical and mental assets combined with minimal charge against and exploitation of the society. We must contribute to society as much as possible because, directly and indirectly, we enjoy the contributions of the global society in which we live and of which we are a part.To achieve this goal, we must know not only ourselves but also the society in which we live. A society is not uniform. It is composed of mosaics of people of varying characteristics, structured in different patterns and groups, the qUalities of which we must know because upon them depends our own place in the society. Were the world uniform of feature and society, there would no place for regional geography. But because the world varies in form and its societies are different, study of the differentiation of the world's surface and the regional geography as the people who live on it is an important tool for understanding the society in which we live, particularly when our goal is to live with it in harmony.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Dov Nir

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Region as a Socio-environmental System

  • Book Subtitle: An Introduction to a Systemic Regional Geography

  • Authors: Dov Nir

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0483-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0516-3Due: 31 January 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6703-4Published: 04 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0483-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 182

  • Topics: Geography, general, Human Geography, Anthropology

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