1. THE DECLINE OF FIELDWORK IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY.
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Rundstrom, Robert A. and Kenzer, Martin S.
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GEOGRAPHY , *EARTH sciences , *FIELDWORK (Educational method) , *GEOGRAPHERS , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *DEMOGRAPHY - Abstract
Fieldwork has been an important component of human geography. A multi-decade analysis of articles in three major journals shows that human geographers since the mid 1970s have produced less fieldwork-based research than ever before in this century. The impetus for this unprecedented decline and other similar disciplinary trends are traced to several causes; demographic change, technological change, institutional pressures, and the resurgence of applied geography. Such fundamental change places disturbing questions before geographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1989
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