COMMON GROUND, SHARED INHERITANCE - RESEARCH IMPERATIVES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY

Today's distinctive environmental consciousness, and the requirements of the National Curriculum in geography that partly stem from it, make it more important than ever for geographers to tackle the research problems on the common ground where human and physical geography overlap. Amongst many research imperatives, there are at least three that geographers can and should embrace enthusiastically on the basis of their skills and experience: the exploration and audit of environmental conditions prior to environmental policy formulation; the study of human-physical links relating to environmental issues within institutional contexts; and the evaluation of historical environmental change and management.