biography
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Chorley, Richard John
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| male
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| lived:
| (1927–2002)
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| biography:
| Geomorphologist, born in Minehead, Somerset, SW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became professor of geography at Cambridge in 1974. He was a leader in the group which challenged traditional geography and led to the British phase of the so-called ‘quantitative revolution’. He used general system theory in the study of landforms, advocated geography as human ecology, and developed the use of models in explanation. |
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