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On Wed, 10 Nov 1993, DUSTY wrote:

> My votes for difficult geographical concepts are:
>   1) Explaining spatial concepts to non-geographers.  Economists and
>      Natural Scientists in particular seem to have difficulty grasping
>      the concepts
>
>   2) Defending Geography as a science to the general scientific community,
>      especially when geographical research "steps on the toes" of another
>      discipline (i.e. Economic Geography v. Economics  or Cultural Geography
>      v. Sociology and Anthropology etc.)
>
> Just my two cents worth on the subject :)        -- Dusty

Your first difficlulty is the support for your second point of difficulty.
Other sciences focus on topics in isolation for the most part.
Geographers identify the parts, their spatial expression and examines the
whole.  An excellent article in this vein is in the Journal of Geography
vol.91 no, 6. William Norton argues that..."Human Geography is a social
science focusing on human behavior as it relates to the surface of the earth."

Try to get others to understand that what they take for granted around
them is all geography.  Other social sciences can study parts but
geographers examine the relationships.

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