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Behavioural Environment

The 'behavioural environment' is a notional cognitive space where a person (or people) respond and make decisions to environments by way of the current or prevalent social facts.

The concept was devised by the geographer William Kirk who argued that the environment that stimulates human responses may change as it is not the phenomenal environment

'a psycho-physical field in which phenomenal facts are arranged into patterns or structures (gestalten) and acquire values in cultural contexts. It is the environment in which rational human behaviour begins and decisions are taken which may or may not be translated into overt action in the Phenomenal Environment. Problems of Geography p 366

The contents of the geographical environment include many items that are created by human action, by decision-makers act in the contexts of their own behavioural environments. According to Kirk,

the need to focus work on decision-taking how the world is, or was,

perceived by human beings with motives, preferences, modes of thinking, and traditions drawn from their social, cultural context. The same empirical data may arrange itself into different patterns and have different meanings to people of different cultures, or at different stages in the history of a particular culture, just as a landscape may differ in the eyes of different observers.

The concept is reviewed in'The Behavioural Environment

Bird has suggested that Kirk's 'phenomenal environment' is the equivalent of Karl Popper's World 1 and the 'behavioural environment' is co-extensive with Worlds 2 and 3 of Popper's Three Worlds.

Hans Röthlisberger married Doris in  and had two daughters. He died at home in Uerikon.


 * 1) REDIRECT Discrete debris accumulation

Rock Glacier (this a complete re-write, from a NPOV, reflecting current thinking on a congtroversial topic)

Rock glaciers are mountain landforms associated with glacial, periglacial and/or permafrost conditions, either in the present or in the past. There is a range of terms associated with these features; rockglacier, blockgletscher, blockstroem, Associated features, discussed below, are protalus ramparts, protalus lobes. because of this terminological complexity, especially where interpretation is difficiult, all these features can be considered as a discrete debris accumulation '''