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Discuss the approaches to the study of behavioural geography.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Behavioural geography explains spatial patterns through the cognitive processes of the decision-maker, arguing that people act not on the objective world but on the world as perceived — an insight given its first formal geographical statement by W. Kirk (1951, 1963) in his separation of the phenomenal from the behavioural environment.

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  • The Environmental Perception Approach — Kirk's Phenomenal versus Behavioural Environment
  • The Cognitive-Mapping and Mental-Map Approach — Gould, Lynch, Downs and Stea
  • The Decision-Making and Bounded-Rationality Approach — Simon, Wolpert and Pred
  • The Natural Hazard Perception Approach — Gilbert White, Kates and Burton
  • The Stimulus-Response or Analytical-Behavioural Approach — Golledge and the Positivist Wing
  • The Geosophical–Humanistic Strand — Wright and Lowenthal, a Branch that Became a Rival
  • …and 4 more sections, with a conclusion

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