Ap Human Geography Book Review
Thrift (2002), provides a general overview of geography as a discipline. His work gives a summary of the success, problems and the way forward for geography. He did a good work by buttressing his argument with specific examples, such as the landscape ecology evolution in geography at the University of Edinburgh. Also, he made mention of the success human geography is making in the public policy sector, which came up last three weeks in our class discussion and is a central theme is this week’s reading. Am of the view that a discipline research can positively impact society if the results and findings of the research are not only integrated into public decision makings, but the researchers themselves are made part of the decision making of public
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Martin giving any day will disagree with Thrift to an extent. Martin is of the view that human geography should be doing more when it comes to public policy than it’s doing now. But, he agrees with Thrift to an extent by posing a question “What is the point of continuity seeking to expand and deepen our knowledge and understanding of society, the economy and the environment if this knowledge and understanding is not used to help improve social, economic, and environmental conditions? Most of the issues raised by Martin were addressed somehow in Thrifts work. Martin asked geographers to interrogate and evaluate existing policies and also help improve the socioeconomic welfare of our society. Thrifts work, did provide some examples that indirectly served as a response to Martins suggestions. Example, in Thrifts work he showed how geographers have been instrumental in making known the problem of financial exclusion to the general public, through research report. I agree with Martin on his overall argument on why geographers are not contributing enough to public policy, because most of our work are difficult and arcane to understand to people outside our discipline. I agree that for our work to be of benefit to policymakers, it should be simplified and easy to understand. Also, as Harvey (2011), suggested to geographers in his paper
Martin giving any day will disagree with Thrift to an extent. Martin is of the view that human geography should be doing more when it comes to public policy than it’s doing now. But, he agrees with Thrift to an extent by posing a question “What is the point of continuity seeking to expand and deepen our knowledge and understanding of society, the economy and the environment if this knowledge and understanding is not used to help improve social, economic, and environmental conditions? Most of the issues raised by Martin were addressed somehow in Thrifts work. Martin asked geographers to interrogate and evaluate existing policies and also help improve the socioeconomic welfare of our society. Thrifts work, did provide some examples that indirectly served as a response to Martins suggestions. Example, in Thrifts work he showed how geographers have been instrumental in making known the problem of financial exclusion to the general public, through research report. I agree with Martin on his overall argument on why geographers are not contributing enough to public policy, because most of our work are difficult and arcane to understand to people outside our discipline. I agree that for our work to be of benefit to policymakers, it should be simplified and easy to understand. Also, as Harvey (2011), suggested to geographers in his paper