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Mr. Wonderful · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

What does Tobler's First Law of Geography state?

Question 2

Explain what Carl Sauer meant when he urged geographers to use the landscape perspective.

sokh · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 13, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Relative location is at the heart of a geographic axiom known as Tobler's First Law of Geography: Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things..

Answer to Question 2

Sauer is credited with founding the landscape perspective in American geography, based on the method of studying the transformation through time of a natural landscape to a cultural landscape. Essentially, Sauer challenged us to think of what the world would look like without people and then understand what people have done to reshape the world through time.