Editorial: “Relating physical and human geography”

In its initial academic approaches, Geography defined Society-Environment relations as its core field of study and developed theories like physical determinism (Ratzel, Semple, Huntington), possibilism (Vidal de la Blache) as well as cultural geographic approaches of these relations (Sauer ; the monumental “Man’s role in changing the face of the Earth”). Even if they are today considered as problematic for several reasons, these approaches were characterised by a strong interweaving of scienc...