ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the 1960’s, at least from the technological standpoint, geomorphology seemed to be well placed for the application of quantitative techniques to its traditional problems and, particularly, for the employment of spatial analysis in the study of landforms and their associated processes. The term spatial analysis is used in this context to include the assemblage of analytical techniques and models in which a clear association is maintained between quantitative data and the spatial co-ordinates which locate them. The rapid quantitative revolution was characterised by the analysis of spatial relations between geographic phenomena and by the construction and testing of locational models of human activity. In the United States and Sweden the links between geomorphology and human geography were traditionally rather weak, at least when compared with those in Britain. Economies of scale operated to the detriment of the spread of quantitative techniques in geomorphology, in comparison with other earth and social sciences.
