ABSTRACT
Traditional geographical approaches have viewed human beings more as objects than subjects, victims of circumstance rather than controllers of destiny, pawns rather than players. The behavioural approach looks to the subjective world of perceptions, feelings, attitudes, and beliefs for its contribution to the central aim of geography-the explanation of spatial behaviour. It has been hard to establish the relationship between spatial behaviour and this complex mental world, and it is the purpose of this chapter to show that the concept of decision-making helps to forge that link.
