He drops out of engineering studies, calling it an "intellectual indulgence," and leaves his studies in environmental geography without writing a thesis.
Natural resource regions can be a topic of physical geography or environmental geography, but also have a strong element of human geography and economic geography.
It exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including environmental law, environmental sociology, ecotheology, ecological economics, ecology and environmental geography.
Typically, the magazine contains articles on physical, historical, political and environmental geography, illustrated with photographs and maps (averaging two illustrations per page).