Torsten Hägerstrand

Stig Torsten Erik Haeger beach ( born October 11, 1916 in Moheda, community Alvesta; † May 3, 2004 Lund ) was a Swedish human geographer at the University of Lund, who became important primarily for his research in the field of time geography.

Life

After studying in Lund (including Edgar Kant), he wrote in 1953 his doctoral thesis on innovation waves. This was established in 1967 under the title "Innovation Diffusion as a Spatial Process" by Allan Pred translated into English. In 1969 he held during his presidency of the Regional Science Association, the speech " What about people in regional science? ", Which was published the following year in the journal Papers of the Regional Science Association. This Haeger beach defined the regional science as a social science discipline.

He conducted research continues in the area of so-called " diffusion wave " and eventually developed his four-stage model of innovation waves.

Awards and honors (selected)

Haeger beach was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences ( 1969), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( 1971), the Norwegian Academy of Sciences ( 1972), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978), the British Academy (1985) and the Royal Swedish Gelehrsamkeits, history and antiques Academy, a founding member of the Academia Europaea (1988 ), as well as support of the Finnish award " academic science " (1980). The honorary doctorate was conferred on him by the University of Glasgow ( 1971), the University of Bristol (1974 ), The Ohio State University, the University of Edinburgh ( per 1985) and the University of Bergen (1986). Furthermore Haeger beach was, inter alia, with the North Star Medal (1961 ), the Charles P. Daly Medal of the American Geographical Society ( 1966), the Vitus Bering Medal of the Royal Danish Geographical Society (1970), the contrast - Retzius Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (1973 ), the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (1979 ), August - extinguishing ring of Honor (1986) and the Prix Vautrin Lud of the Festival international de géographie (1992 ) excellent.