ABSTRACT
Based on what geographers write about the nature of geography, it is reasonable to conclude that they see their discipline as an appropriate home for environmental or sustainability education and research. American geographers have, from the beginning, characterized a major component of geography as the study of man–land, human–environment, or environment–society relationships. When Pattison described the nature of geography in 1964 by inventorying the work geographers had done up to that time, he identified four traditions, one of which was the man–land tradition (Pattison, 1964).
