ABSTRACT

One of Richard Chorley’s most significant contributions to geomorphology was to draw attention to the interaction between geomorphological and human systems. In his 1973 comments he quotes George Perkins Marsh’s nineteenth-century recognition of man’s ability to dominate the landscape (Chorley 1973: 157–159). Later, in Environmental Systems, he argued against ecological models that place society in too subordinate and ineffectual a role (Bennett and Chorley 1978). He described the interaction between human and environmental systems as one of ‘interfacing’.