How landscape became ecosystem: The nature of the quantitative revolution in German geography

Paulus K, Michel B (2022)


Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2022

Publisher: Routledge

Edited Volumes: Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography

City/Town: London

ISBN: 9781000515596

DOI: 10.4324/9781003122104-8

Abstract

The history of the quantitative revolution in geography has received increased attention in recent years by a wide range of authors from a broad spectrum of geographical contexts. After a short introduction to the dominant narrative about the history of the quantitative revolution in German geography, this chapter follows three concepts of nature – landscape, landscape ecology, and ecosystem – and their relation to the understanding of geography as a holistic discipline. The dominant narrative about the quantitative and theoretical revolution in (West) German geography focuses on two events that took in the late 1960s when the quantitative revolution in some countries already started to be challenged by a new generation of radical geographers. The Anglophone debates of the 1950s and 1960s were hardly received at the time and only had a limited impact on German geography.

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APA:

Paulus, K., & Michel, B. (2022). How landscape became ecosystem: The nature of the quantitative revolution in German geography. In Ferenc Gyuris, Boris Michel, Katharina Paulus (Eds.), Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography. London: Routledge.

MLA:

Paulus, Katharina, and Boris Michel. "How landscape became ecosystem: The nature of the quantitative revolution in German geography." Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography. Ed. Ferenc Gyuris, Boris Michel, Katharina Paulus, London: Routledge, 2022.

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