Nature and scope of agricultural geography
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The scope, the ambit or the area of the agricultural geography is quite vast both in the temporal and the spatial terms, besides the applicability. The Universal Integrated Cubical Temporal - Spatial - Applicability Scope model of the scope illustrates it aptly. The given cube can easily be sliced into 90 pieces (3 Temporal faces x 6 Spatialfaces x 5 Applicability faces).
Each slice represents one face each of the Temporal - Spatial - Applicability Scope. Thus, we may elaborate the scope of the subject in the 90 different ways. For example, let us cut the slice with the 3 following faces: the Future, the Philosophical and the Asthenospheric. This slice means that the agricultural geography can be studied from the point of view of the philosophical questions related to the use of the asthenospheric resources at any given point of the time in the future.
Although Hartshorne and Alexander opine that "the geographer is concerned primarily with variations from place to place rather than from time to time" yet a geographer can't escape studying the temporal aspects, too in terms of studying the varied geographical patterns of the phenomena prevailing at any given point of the time on the Earth.
A complete and detailed exposition of all the above mentioned 90 integrated slices is beyond the scope of this article. So, I have attempted the following brief description of the various facets of the scope of this challenging dynamic subject:
The scope, the ambit or the area of the agricultural geography is quite vast both in the temporal and the spatial terms, besides the applicability. The Universal Integrated Cubical Temporal - Spatial - Applicability Scope model of the scope illustrates it aptly. The given cube can easily be sliced into 90 pieces (3 Temporal faces x 6 Spatialfaces x 5 Applicability faces).
Each slice represents one face each of the Temporal - Spatial - Applicability Scope. Thus, we may elaborate the scope of the subject in the 90 different ways. For example, let us cut the slice with the 3 following faces: the Future, the Philosophical and the Asthenospheric. This slice means that the agricultural geography can be studied from the point of view of the philosophical questions related to the use of the asthenospheric resources at any given point of the time in the future.
Although Hartshorne and Alexander opine that "the geographer is concerned primarily with variations from place to place rather than from time to time" yet a geographer can't escape studying the temporal aspects, too in terms of studying the varied geographical patterns of the phenomena prevailing at any given point of the time on the Earth.
A complete and detailed exposition of all the above mentioned 90 integrated slices is beyond the scope of this article. So, I have attempted the following brief description of the various facets of the scope of this challenging dynamic subject:
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