Committee on Identifying Transformative Geographical Sciences Committee Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
The central purpose of all research is to create new knowledge. In the geographical sciences this is driven by a desire to create new knowledge about the relations between space, place, and the anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic features and processes of the Earth. But some research goes beyond these modest aims and creates new opportunities for further research, or affects the process of knowledge acquisition more broadly, or changes the way other researchers in a domain think about the world and go about their business.
Due to its positive impacts, transformative research can be...
The central purpose of all research is to create new knowledge. In the geographical sciences this is driven by a desire to create new knowledge abo...