"' Rene Matlovic "'is Professor of Human and Regional Geography at the University of Presov in Slovakia and President of the Slovak Geographical Society.
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-( born 1967 in Preaov, Slovakia ) is the professor of Human and Regional Geography at the University of Preaov in the Slovak Republic.
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Sauer's work was highly qualitative and descriptive and was surpassed in the 1930s by the regional geography of Richard Hartshorne, followed by the quantitative revolution.
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In the West during the 20th century, the discipline of geography went through four major phases : environmental determinism, regional geography, the quantitative revolution, and critical geography.
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Regional geography is also considered as a certain approach to study in geographical sciences ( similar to critical geographies; for more information, see history of geography ).
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A similar concern with both human and physical aspects is apparent in the later regional geography, during the later 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.
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The school of Carl O . Sauer, strongly influenced by Alfred Hettner and Paul Vidal de la Blache, is also seen as regional geography in its broadest sense.
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Following the death of Vidal de la Blache in 1918, he assumed directorship of " G�ographie universelle ", a major project involving regional geography of the entire world.
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In 1902 he published " Britain and the British Seas ", which included the first comprehensive geomorphology of the British Isles and which became a classic in regional geography.
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The result being that the conference was over-ridingly French in character, with great emphasis being placed on the most recent trends in French geographical thought, chiefly that of regional geography.