'Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences'
Doi
Abstract
In this article we analyse the human-environment relationships in geographical research from the end of
the 19th to the beginning of the 21st
century. We highlight paradigms, which aff ected our way of thinking
about man-environment relations. Discussing scientifi c approaches and paradigms in geography the leading
scientists who had infl uential thoughts and helped the shaping of a paradigm will also be mentioned. The
research on human-environment relations has appeared in geography from time to time, but the connecting
paradigms had also diff erent stories through time and space. Undoubtedly, the nowadays reviving determin-
ism had the greatest infl uence, but possibilism has also had a signifi cant impact on our discipline. Research on
human-environment relationships reappeared in a new form through the discourse on global climate change.
Postmodern, poststructuralist, and postcolonial approaches changed radically the basis of human-environment
research. In this paper, we argue that geography needs to renew not only its philosophical basis and theoretical
context, but the connections between the two subdisciplines of geography (i.e. between physical and human
geography) must be refreshed too