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A long time ago, in my first college geography class, I was told ‘geography is what geographers do’ and this casual remark stuck with me. Thus I have never understood die need for the term ‘applied geography.’ Geography is what geographers do, whether they do it in the classroom for the love of learning, or in government agencies for the good of the country, or in private enterprise for profit The title ‘applied geographer’ seems unnecessary; professional geographer or practitioner is more appropriate. Members of other disciplines, wherever they are employed, seem to refer to themselves simply as sociologists, anthropologists, or economists.
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Andrews, A. (1989). Women in Applied Geography. In: Kenzer, M.S. (eds) Applied Geography: Issues, Questions, and Concerns. The GeoJournal Library, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0471-2_14
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