"It's almost like geographical determinism - he gravitates here because he has no choice," offered the customer, who identified himself only as Carlos.

Possibilism in geography is, thus, considered as a distinct approach to geographical knowledge, directly opposed to geographical determinism.

Environmental determinism, also known as climatic or geographical determinism, proposes that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture.

Africa's regional integration now faces a similar economic imperative; it too must be built on shared values, rather than on vague notions of geographical determinism.

And if you want to call that geographical determinism, you can call it geographical determinism.

Bahro's later ecological ideas, recounted in From Red to Green and elsewhere were likewise inspired by Wittfogel's geographical determinism.

Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism, is the belief that the physical environment predisposes human social development towards particular trajectories.

JABR (Geographical determinism, contains an interpolation of Nirvana's "Love Buzz")

With the declaration of war in the summer of 1914, Amiens, which geographical determinism placed to protect the capital, suffered the brunt of the horrors of war.

But just as the text starts to teeter under the weight of geographical determinism, Kaplan quickly shifts ground, arguing for “the partial determinism we all need” (italics in the original).

Diamond's view is largely "determinism", in that 'Guns, Germs and Steel' argues that Eurasian dominance was inevitable, or at least very likely (sometimes called geographical determinism).

In Canada, even though geographical determinism is no longer accepted as a valid interpretation of the country’s past evolution, the relationship of peoples to the land and the seas remains a fundamental theme of its history.

Martin and Wigen object, above all, when geographical determinism creeps into our talk of these "continents," as if the land forms themselves and their analytical separability explain why people live and think differently in these places.

K. S. Gadzhev, in his book Vvedenie v geopolitiku (Introduction to Geopolitics) raises a series of objections to Mackinder's Heartland to start with that the significance physiography is given there for political strategy is a form of geographical determinism.

One must, of course, always stress the human factor and beware the danger of geographical determinism; nevertheless, it is revealing to find that 86 per cent of estate villages in Kent had no Dissenting chapel, but that such places of worship were common in the scattered settlements of former forest or wood-pasture zones.

This timeline is for use with the article on environmental determinism.

The theory of Environmental determinism can be used to explain economic development at a local, regional, or global scale.

Environmental determinism has been adopted by the urban design field to describe the effects the built environment may have on behaviour.

The concept of environmental determinism was developed at this time and has been accepted as valid until very recently.

He was particularly interested in the fields of anthropogeography and environmental determinism.

Between 1920 and 1940, environmental determinism came under repeated attack as its claims were found to be severely flawed.

Environmental determinism is the theory that a people's physical, mental and moral habits are directly due to the influence of their natural environment.

Old theories in new places- environmental determinism and bioregionalism.

Roger Pulwarty, for his part, rejects the notion of environmental determinism.

Environmental determinism has been criticised as a tool to legitimize colonialism.

In particular, geographers gave European states the reason of environmental determinism, which is the belief that the environment shapes character and culture.

Environmental determinism- are organizational characteristics determined by internal factors or environmental conditions?

To these, he opposed a combination of functionalism, mutationism, and environmental determinism.

The concept environmental determinism served as a moral justification for domination of certain territories and peoples.

He also introduced the idea of a food chain, and was an early adherent of environmental determinism.

Sauer's theories developed as a critique of environmental determinism, which was a popular theory in the early twentieth century.

She was highly influenced by environmental determinism.

The push for environmental determinism seemed to be the best framework to justify American practices in Panama.

Glasspool calls the destruction of the Heygate an example of "environmental determinism".

Environmental determinism, which asserted that certain traits of populations were said to be determined by the environment, was one way to legitimize these actions.

Although the branch was previously more visible in research than at present with theories such as environmental determinism linking society with the environment.

Some city planners try to control criminality with structures designed from theories such as socio-architecture or environmental determinism.

According to Owen, physical geography had a large influence on the course of history and civilization, the area of study now labelled "environmental determinism".

The late 20th century saw a revival in environmental determinism as a branch of the new, broader study of environmental history.