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Strict determinism vs probablism
Should this discussion include less strict versions, in which environment influences, but does not exactly determine human actions. Something like, "environmental determinism is used to describe beliefs about the effect of environment on human behavior, ranging from totally determining behovior to being one of many influences on behaviour." The Gomm 05:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Proposed merger
Oppose merge. These are distinct topics. Hadrianheugh 00:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Agree with merge. Climatic Determinism is a sub sect of Environmental Determinism. However, it was a large movement, and thus should have a subheader dedicated to it. This is clearly true in the book which brought Environmental Determinism to the states, Semple's Influences of Geographic Environment. Climatic determinism was an *element of* E.D. in her work.
Annalistes notably absent
I realize that "environmental determinism" is important in geography theory, but it is also a paradigm which figures very prominently in history theory/historiography, to the point that its gravitational pull can overcome many other, smaller schools whose realms of inquiry are narrower, sucking them into the vortex that is environmental determinism and away from other giants, such as economic determinsm. This is in large part due to the shadow cast by Ferdinand Braudel, Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre and the rest of the Annales school. An enviromental determinist approach has figured prominently in the work of historians -- many of them French -- such as Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie and Jacques le Goffe, both of whom are/were prominent medievalists, and, of course, any historian who would dare to speak authoritatively about the Mediterranean world must first consider Braudel's magnum opus on that subject.
In short, I propose that this article be broadened to reflect environmental determinism's broader relevance across disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and beyond, as it is, by nature, of interdisciplinary relevance. Corineus (talk) 21:31, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
