Relation Between Humans and their Physical Environment
You are already aware of the fact
that the core concern of geography as a discipline is to understand the earth as home of
human beings and to study all those elements, which have sustained them. Thus, emphasis is
on study of nature and human beings. You will realise that geography got subjected to
dualism and the wide-ranging debates started whether geography as a discipline should be a
law making/theorising (nomothetic) or descriptive (idiographic).
Human beings interact with their physical environment with the help of technology. It is not
important what human beings produce and create but it is extremely important ’with the help
of what tools and techniques do they produce and create’.
Technology indicates the level of cultural development of society. Human beings were able
to develop technology after they developed better understanding of natural laws.