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Church, M, (2010) ‘The trajectory of geomorphology’, Progress in Physical Geography 34 (3): 265-86. doi: 10.1177/0309133310363992

Lake, R.W. (1993) ‘Planning and applied geography: positivism, ethics, and geographic information systems’, Progress in Human Geography 17 (3): 404-13. doi: 10.1177/030913259301700309.

Mather, P. (1979) ‘Theory and quantitative methods in geomorphology’, Progress in Physical Geography 3 (4): 471-487.  [Note that the ‘realism’ described early in this paper is Bhaskar’s critical realism – see Chapter 4 – rather than scientific realism in general].

Schurman, N. (2000) ‘Trouble in the heartland: GIS and its critics in the 1990s’, Progress in Human Geography 24 (4): 569-90. doi: 10.1191/030913200100189111. 

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/24/4/569.full.pdf+html

[The focus here is on GIS, but this includes some discussion of (debates about) positivism and GIS].

Smith, N. (1979) ‘Geography, science and post-positivist modes of explanation’, Progress in Human Geography 3 (3): 356-83. doi: 10.1177/030913257900300302.

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/3/3/356.full.pdf+html

Notes to accompany exercise 2.1 (Word)

Notes to accompany exercise 2.2 (Word)

Diolaiuti, GA; Bocchiola, D; Vagliasindi, M; D’Agata, C & Smiraglia, C (2012) The 1975-2005 glacier changes in Aosta Valley (Italy) and the relations with climate evolution.  Progress in Physical Geography 36 (6): 764-785. doi: 10.1177/0309133312456413.

Notes to accompany exercise 2.4 (Word)

Bourdeau, M. (2011) ‘Auguste Comte’, in  E.N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition). http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2011/entries/comte/