Geography Library — Index

The spatial science — how things are arranged on, and shaped by, the surface of the Earth. The discipline that bridges the natural and the social: its physical half (geomorphology, climate, biogeography) reaches into the Sciences/ libraries, its human half (population, economy, politics, the city) into the rest of Society/, and its methods (cartography, GIS, spatial analysis) into Compute/ and Math/.

  • Status: Tier 1 complete — 7 notes (the two halves + three human subfields + technique + discipline), authored 2026-06-03.
  • Conventions: named scholars, models, and dates throughout; spatial/quantitative material in KaTeX ($...$, LaTeX commands only); no emojis.

Tier 1 — The two halves

TopicFileScope
Physical geographyphysical-geographygeomorphology, climatology, hydrology, soils & biogeography, the cryosphere, global change
Human geographyhuman-geographyspace/place/scale, population, migration, cultural & settlement geography, development

Tier 1 — Human-geographic subfields

TopicFileScope
Economic geographyeconomic-geographylocation theory, agglomeration & clusters, regional growth, trade & global production networks
Political geography & geopoliticspolitical-geography-and-geopoliticsthe state & territory, borders, classical & critical geopolitics, electoral geography
Urban geographyurban-geographyurbanization, the system of cities, urban land-use models, the Global South city

Tier 1 — Technique and discipline

TopicFileScope
Cartography, GIS & remote sensingcartography-gis-and-remote-sensingmaps & projections, GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis & spatial statistics
Geographic thought & methodsgeographic-thought-and-methodsthe four traditions, determinism→possibilism, the quantitative revolution, the critical turns

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