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“Areal differentiation has provided the theoretical justification for studying „regions and regional geography. Comment.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Areal differentiation is the proposition that the earth's surface varies from place to place not element by element but as an integrated whole, so that each portion carries a combination of physical and human phenomena unlike that of its neighbours.

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  • The Chain of Reasoning: How Areal Variation Becomes a Warrant for the Region
  • What the Justification Licenses: Different Criteria Generate Different Regions
  • Formal (Uniform) Regions
  • Functional (Nodal) Regions
  • Vernacular (Perceptual) Regions
  • Scales of Areal Difference: The Hierarchy of Regional Units
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