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Discuss the relevance of ‘Stop and Go Determinism’ in the present-day context.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Stop-and-go determinism is the philosophy formulated by Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963) in the early 1940s, refined through his Australian settlement studies and restated in his 1948 work on Australia — also circulated as neo-determinism or neo-environmentalism.

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  • Griffith Taylor's Formulation: Nature's Plan and the Traffic Controller
  • Locating the Position: The Spectrum from Ratzel to Vidal
  • Stop-and-Go versus Probabilism: Two Middles, Different Emphases
  • The Climate Signal: Carbon Budgets and Planetary Boundaries as Formalised Red Lights
  • Disaster Geography in India: A Ledger of Signals Read and Ignored
  • Institutionalised Stop-and-Go: The Regulatory Traffic Lights
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