Modern geography to overcome interdisciplinary barriers

Abstract

The challenges of post-industrial society in the geographical science are studied. It is shown that for the last decades geography is experiencing a certain crisis due the loss of connection between the physical and socio-economic geography, as well as between the individual geographical sciences, with the result that geography has lost its object of study. The necessity of strengthening of the geographical monism is on the way to a common unrequited geography, which should be the subject of environmental (geographic) studies. Geographic monism can manifest itself most clearly particularly in regional studies and country studies. There are fears of certain marginalization of regional studies and country studies in the system of geographical science. Unfortunately, a country geographical description is not considered as a major contribution to science. Country studies are pushed out of the geographical science. However, it is through country studies geographical sciences acquire humanistic depth, most vividly demonstrating its integration capabilities through tourism. Due to its natural-human position tourism aims to overcome the interdisciplinary barriers in geography. Apart from tourism mapping can play a similar role as well as geo-ecological studies, researches in the field of sustainable development, researches in the field of the territorial organization of the economy and society, the spatial self-organization of society. The proposed innovated geography, which has its own object of study, will be able to find its own niche in the hierarchy of sciences, which no one can claim.