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Environmental determinism (also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism) is the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies...

Taylor and possibly Jared Diamond, although his status as an environmental determinist is debated. Other "deterministic"[opinion] theories actually seek...

geography as academic study firstly emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century, which had believed that people...

environment. Prominent environmental determinists included Carl Ritter, Ellen Churchill Semple, and Ellsworth Huntington. Environmentally deterministic hypotheses...

introduction of the concept of mutual aid. Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), environmental determinist, invented the term Lebensraum Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918)...

of environmental determinism served as a moral justification for the domination of certain territories and peoples. The environmental determinist school...

the present Mediterranean climate. The image of a simplistic, environmental determinist notion of a Mediterranean paradise on Earth in antiquity, which...

utmost importance to geography: even if he was not an utmost environmental determinist, he thought that a man's relation with his milieu involves a particular...

organic analogy in his works. Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904) – environmental determinist, invented the term Lebensraum Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918)...

depicts people as onlooking hosts of internal mechanisms orchestrated by environmental events. They are stripped of any sense of agency. People are proactive...

alienation and social disorder. Jane Jacobs is another notable environmental determinist and is associated with the "eyes on the street" concept. By improving...

the surroundings. An extreme Victorian acceptance of this were 'environmental determinists' who insisted the physical environment and climate influenced...

misinterpreted by many of his students, creating a number of environmental determinists. He published his work on political geography, Politische Geographie...

of religion has also been discussed by scholars in the past. Environmental determinists developed racial justifications for the relationship between regional...

degraded and desertified by human mismanagement. The simplistic, environmental determinist notion of a Mediterranean Paradise on Earth in antiquity, which...

"you can kill a man with a building just as easily as with an axe." The determinist belief was a contributory factor in the numerous slum clearances of the...

opposed to biological or objective factors).[citation needed] A social determinist would only consider social dynamics like customs, cultural expectations...

organisms that had no inherited source; thus, Lamarckians and environmental determinists often found themselves on the same side of debates. But Boas worked more...

and throughout the Western world, in the 1930s. Under the influence of determinist beliefs, the American craniologist Samuel George Morton (1799–1851),...

mentally disabled or infants) also have some basic moral capabilities. Determinists argue all of our actions are the product of antecedent causes, and some...