The threat from global environmental change is inc-reasingly invoked as the raison d'etre of geography, and this carries with it the necessity
of a holistic approach (see, for example, Newson, 1992; Slaymaker and
Spencer, 1998; Crofts, 1999; Gregory, 2000). The folklore has it that,
had they not been led astray down the paths of reductionist process
analysis, geographers would by now be well on the way to sorting out
the current mess.