physical geography• These three trendscombined to form a more environmentalphysical geography which may have been late but hopefully not too late.• In geomorphology the impact of studies of process was perhaps most substantial and also the most dramatic in physical geography.• Such omission is completely in sympathy with the trend in physical geography for nearly a century after Man and Nature.• Hence the prospect of an energyrelated and integratedphysical geography including geomorphological processes may not be too far beyond the horizon.• In such a perception, the world is not physical geography but an arenainhabited by individual countries.• This trend is exemplified by all branches of physical geography.• Furthermore, some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhancedknowledge of processes.• The number of financialproductsavailable over the internet-where physical geography is mostly irrelevant-is increasing rapidly.