In geography, the quantitative revolution (QR) was a paradigm shift that sought to develop a more rigorous and systematic methodology for the discipline...

explored globally. Quantitative methods in geography became particularly influential in the discipline during the quantitative revolution of the 1950s and...

concept of laws in geography is a product of the quantitative revolution and is a central focus of quantitative geography. Their emergence is highly influential...

disciplines. — Artur Krawczyk, During the early days of the quantitative revolution, the term quantitative geography emerged as a subdiscipline within technical...

broad themes: environmental determinism, regional geography, the quantitative revolution, and critical geography. Environmental determinism is the theory...

was leveled against it in particular during the 1950s and the quantitative revolution. Main critics were G. H. T. Kimble and Fred K. Schaefer. The regional...

remain with environmental determinism. By the 1960s, however, the quantitative revolution led to strong criticism of regional geography. Due to a perceived...

events. Richard Chorley (1927–2002), a key contributor to the quantitative revolution and the use of systems theory in geography. Sir Nicholas Shackleton...

geography. The mid- to late-1970s saw ascending critiques of the quantitative revolution and the adoption of Marxist approaches through Marxist geography...

independently. Tobler's law was proposed towards the end of the quantitative revolution in geography, which saw a shift towards using systematic and scientific...

time in most other areas of human geography new approaches, including quantitative spatial science, behavioural studies, and structural Marxism, were invigorating...

elements that varied from place to place, a project taken up by the quantitative revolution. Cultural geography was sidelined by the positivist tendencies...

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful...

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suited to take advantage of technological change during the industrial revolution, granting country wide participation into the booming free-market economy...

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to the varying concerns. Much tourism management literature remains quantitative in methodology and considers tourism as consisting of the places of tourist...

the late 1960s and early 1970s out of dissatisfaction with the quantitative revolution in geography and spurred on by the founding of the journal Antipode...

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second half of the century, due to several influences: first, the Quantitative revolution in geography and the rise of cartography as an academic discipline...

major inflationary cycle within Spain and Europe, known as the price revolution. Spain had amassed large quantities of gold and silver from the New World...

employed by critical geography as part of the response to the quantitative revolution in geography, and stresses qualitative approaches. It seeks to...

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in the 1970s, the sports handicapping industry is undergoing a quantitative revolution. Many successful handicappers also use money management systems...

A quantitative fund is an investment fund that uses quantitative investment management instead of fundamental human analysis. An investment process is...

1953) was a geographer. He is considered one of the pioneers of quantitative revolution. Kurt Schaefer was a whole man, a conscious member of the human...

The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics...

organizational levels. Quantitative geography – Quantitative research tools and methods applied to geography. See also the quantitative revolution. Systems approach...