Perspectives on Geography

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  • HERNÁN SANTIS ARENAS Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Keywords:

Geography, approaches, theory of geography

Abstract

It is explored in the perspectives of Geography considering the meaning of it in the past, present and future. The road to make to emerge such perspectives considers three questions, those which permit to delimit the object of geographical knowledge today, to allude to the various approaches that are used to acquire geographical knowledge and to characterise in bulk lines the contents of the Geography today and toward the tomorrow continuing to the geographers. The conclusion is simple: the Geography it is make by geographers in order to understand and explain the space in which are living the human beings.

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SANTIS ARENAS, H. (2021). Perspectives on Geography. Revista De Geografía Norte Grande, (29), 69–81. Retrieved from https://redae.uc.cl/index.php/RGNG/article/view/43291

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