Who defined Human Geography as the study of the changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Semple
This definition of human geography was given by Ellen C. Semple. The key word in it is dynamism: both the ‘unresting man’ and the ‘unstable earth’ keep changing, so the relationship between them changes too. Ratzel’s definition, by contrast, stresses synthesis, and Paul Vidal de la Blache’s stresses the physical laws of the earth and the living beings on it.
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