Possibilism is a theory in geography that suggests while the environment can limit certain actions (possibilities), it does not determine them. Humans have agency to choose among those possibilities based on cultural or technological factors.
Cultural Landscape: This is the tangible outcome of a group's interaction with its environment, influenced by their cultural and technological choices.
Human-Environment Interaction: This is the broader concept that includes theories like possibilism; it studies how humans affect their environment and vice versa.
Cultural Determinism: This theory argues that culture, not the environment, primarily shapes human behavior and societal development.
AP Human Geography - 3.3 Cultural Patterns
What does the "possibilism" theory emphasize in human geography?
Who proposed an alternative to environmental determinism with possibilism?
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