Geographic Perspectives

Preparation for Discussion

Find this literature in our shared Climate and Development Zotero via Zotero Desktop or Zotero.org: https://www.zotero.org/groups/6120905/climate_and_development
You have an invitation to this group in your Middlebury e-mail account. All of the readings below are organized into the Geographic Perspectives collection.

Move readings into your own library if you want to take notes.

1. Thematic introduction to climate change adaptation

   1. Chapter 1 "Introduction: Development as usual is not enough" of Inderberg, Tor Håkon, Siri H. Eriksen, Karen O’Brien, and Linda Sygna, eds. 2015. Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Transforming Paradigms and Practices. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315774657

2. Essays from prominent geographers (one of them a Middlebury alumnus!) about geography and its strengths/weaknesses, organized in the Geographic Perspectives collection of the Zotero folder, listed in recommended reading order:

   1. Pattison, William D. 1964. “The Four Traditions of Geography.” Journal of Geography 63 (5): 211.

   2. Tuan, Yi-Fu. 1991. “A View of Geography.” Geographical Review 81 (1): 99. https://doi.org/10.2307/215179.

   3. Turner, B. L. 1989. “The Specialist–Synthesis Approach to the Revival of Geography: The Case of Cultural Ecology.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 79 (1): 88–100. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1989.tb00252.x.

   4. Hanson, Susan. 1999. “Isms and Schisms: Healing the Rift between the Nature-Society and Space-Society Traditions in Human Geography.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (1): 133–43. https://doi.org/10.1111/0004-5608.00135.

   5. Baerwald, Thomas J. 2010. “Prospects for Geography as an Interdisciplinary Discipline.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100 (3): 493–501. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2010.485443.

3. The idea is to launch into a discussion about our prior perceptions and experiences of what geography is, and to start thinking creatively about what geography/geographers such as yourselves may bring to the table for addressing novel global challenges like climate change.

4. Careers in Geography Form