Talk:Environmental determinism

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[edit] Strict determinism vs probablism

Should this discussion include less strict versions, in which environment influences, but does not exactly determine human actions. Something like, "environmental determinism is used to describe beliefs about the effect of environment on human behavior, ranging from totally determining behovior to being one of many influences on behaviour." The Gomm 05:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merger

Oppose merge. These are distinct topics. Hadrianheugh 00:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Agree with merge. Climatic Determinism is a sub sect of Environmental Determinism. However, it was a large movement, and thus should have a subheader dedicated to it. This is clearly true in the book which brought Environmental Determinism to the states, Semple's Influences of Geographic Environment. Climatic determinism was an *element of* E.D. in her work.