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The application of a geographical regional study besides its intellectual contribution to a better understanding of the economic, cultural and social problems of a discreet region [Juillard, 1962] can be canalised to three main uses: to improve the cooperation of different regional elements by administrative regionalisation; to treat special regional problems; to use the regional study as the basis for planing [Mazúr, 1983].
Thus regionalism has what might be called an iconography as its foundation: each community has found for itself or was given an icon. a symbol slightly different from those cherished by its neighbors.
Jean Gottmann, 1962
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Nir, D. (1990). Contribution of Regional Geography to Society. In: Region as a Socio-environmental System. The GeoJournal Library, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0483-5_9
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