Knowledge, uncertainty and physical geography: Towards the development of methodologies for questioning belief

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 367-381

  Brown, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Closure; Critical realism; Imperfect knowledge; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 5444251491     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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