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The notions of quality of life and environment are the result of the dominant political, technological and economic institutions found within each society in a particular historical moment. Both notions are treated by different disciplines, encouraging a broad theoretical debate that does not have enough empirical correlation. Geography is associated with both notions and can analyze them from an empirical perspective, thus contributing to the solution of urgent and emerging issues resulting from the interaction society-nature that bear a negative impact on population. Its usefulness is exemplified applying a cluster analysis to twenty social, economic and educational variables in the city of Mar del Plata, thus emphasizing the spatial and territorial basis of Geography that differentiates it from other disciplines involved in the study of both quality of life and the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]