scholarly journals What is Area to physical and environmental geography?

Area ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-556
Author(s):  
Julian Leyland ◽  
Hilary Geoghegan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Geography

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY IN THE SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daša Oremusová ◽  
Magdaléna Nemčíková ◽  
Hilda Kramáreková ◽  
Zita Jenisová
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Geographical Education ◽  
Environmental Geography

Online Learning Activities in Second Year Environmental Geography

2011 ◽  
pp. 243-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Priest ◽  
Karen Fill
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Environmental Geography ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Online Activities

This chapter discusses the design, technical development, delivery, and evaluation of two online learning activities in environmental geography. A “blended” approach was adopted in order to best integrate the new materials within the existing unit. The primary aim of these online activities was to provide students with opportunities to develop and demonstrate valuable practical skills, while increasing their understanding of environmental management. A purpose-built system was created in order to overcome initial technological challenges. The online activities have already been delivered successfully to a large number of students over two academic years. Evaluation and staff reflection highlight the benefits and limitations of the new activities, and the chapter concludes with recommendations for others wishing to adopt a similar approach.

scholarly journals THE PANDEMIC AND THE ‘ENVIRONMENTALISATION’ OF GEOGRAPHY. AN EPISTEMIC-POLITICAL CHALLENGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (31) ◽  
pp. 65-85
Author(s):  
Marcelo Souza
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Academic World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Environmental Geography ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Epistemic Objects

The purpose of this article is to extract from the COVID-19 pandemic a lesson for geographers: although without intending (or being possible) to simply go back to the past, it is necessary to re-value, nevertheless, the very quintessence of the identity of the geographical discourse, which has been characterised by a way of building epistemic objects that is committed to a dialogue between social research (represented by what we usually call‘human geography’) and natural research (represented by what we usually call ‘physical geography’). This project, presently called ‘environmentalisation,’ does not aim at anything overly ambitious: there is no case here for an exclusionary thesis in the style ‘geography should be this, and nothing else’; in fact, it just defends the idea that an approach such as that of environmental geography, resulting from an attempt at ‘environmentalisation,’ must have its place assured. Environmental geography, being committed to the construction of hybrid epistemic objects, allows us to mobilise the interfaces and knowledge necessary to deal with complex tasks such as the analysis of the short and long-term effects of the pandemic (among many other issues). However, the environmental geography project not only has to deal with intellectual challenges (integrating what knowledge, how and for what purpose?), but, in the end, it must also face political obstacles: the concrete power relations in the academic world and the zeal with which ‘borders’ and ‘territories’ are patrolled and defended, not to mention the resistance of many researchers to leave their thematic and theoretical-methodological comfort zones.

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