Geographical Perspectives on Human Development

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Recent studies in humanistic geography employing experiential methodology are generating fresh hypotheses regarding the development of environmental experience at both ends of the life span. Two of these studies, Hart’s analysis of preadolescent children and Rowles’ exploration of inner city elderly, are described. Both studies reveal important themes within this emergent research school, including a holistic multidimensional perspective on experience in environmental and autobiographical context, emphasis upon meaning and intentionality, fascination with vicarious environmental participation, concern with the changing relative significance of particular environmental zones, and an implicit quest for a normative developmental trajectory of environmental experience.

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