environmental determinism

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• Environmental determinism — Geography History of geography Graeco Roman Chinese Islamic Age of Discovery History of cartography Environmental determinism Regional geography Quantitative revolution Critical geography …   Wikipedia

• Environmental sociology — is typically defined as the sociological study of societal environmental interactions, although this definition immediately presents the perhaps insolvable problem of separating human cultures from the rest of the environment. Although the focus… …   Wikipedia

• Determinism — This article is about the general notion of determinism in philosophy. For other uses, see Determinism (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Fatalism, Predeterminism, or Predictability. Certainty series …   Wikipedia

• Determinism (disambiguation) — The term determinism has many meanings in different fields. Contents 1 Philosophy 2 Computer science 3 Sociology and anthropology 4 Biology …   Wikipedia

• determinism — The proposition that all behavior is caused exclusively by genetic and environmental influences with no random components, and independent of free will. [L. determino, to limit, fr. terminus, boundary + ism] psychic d. in psychoanalysis, the… …   Medical dictionary

• Biological determinism — Biological determinism, also called genetic determinism, is the hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism s individual genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) completely determine how a system behaves or changes over… …   Wikipedia

• Cultural determinism — is the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. This supports the theory that environmental influences dominate who we are instead of biologically inherited traits. Yet another way… …   Wikipedia

• List of environmental topics (E) — This is a list of environmental topics. They relate to the effect of human activity on the environment.*(E grass: see) Miscanthus (see biofuel under Uses) *E waste (electronic waste) *(E10: see) common alcohol fuel mixtures *(E15: see) common… …   Wikipedia

• Social determinism — is the concept that the social circumstances at a particular moment in time determine which technologies are adopted, and how. No technology is inevitable, new technologies can only emerge and then begin to be utilized. Lelia Green in her article …   Wikipedia

• Climatic determinism — or environmental determinism is an aspect of economic geography. Also sometimes called the equatorial paradox. According to this theory, about 70% of the economic development of a country can be predicted from the distance between that country… …   Wikipedia

• Genetic determinism — is the belief that genes determine physical and behavioral phenotypes. The term may be applied to the mapping of a single gene to a single phenotype or to the belief that most or all phenotypes are determined mostly or exclusively by genes. While …   Wikipedia