Geography: A Tool for Getting to Know the World

Norbert Csizmadia

Chapter 3 in Geofusion:Mapping of the 21st Century, 2020, pp 20-36 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: At the beginning, geography referred only to the description of the Earth. This is reflected in the etymology of the word geography, where -graphy refers to the descriptive origin of the discipline. In the world’s first geography manual, Geographica, Strabo, the first geographer and a contemporary of Christ, attempted to describe the known part of the world based on his own travels and the works of other geography writers. Geography later shed this descriptive role, “venturing out” into boundary areas integrating a territorial approach and thus creating its own subfields.

Keywords: Globalization; Geopolitics; Geoeconomics; International Economics; Urban Research; Futures Studies; Futurism; Liveable Cities; Global Networks; Future Cities; World Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F6 P25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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