POLS 2300 Lecture 1: 5 Themes of Geography
14 Jun 2018
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5 Themes of Human Geography
Location
→ Where something or some place is found
1) Absolute Location: Latitude/ longitude. This location is not going to change. Physical
distance.
2) Relative Location: Hierarchy of places and the relative speed it takes to get
somewhere. This location changes because types of transportation have improved (we
went from walking to driving to flying).
→ Relatively, places get closer, but they’re absolutely the same.
Place
→ Social Meanings and uses in location
→ Places can disappear over time
→ How people think or feel about a place and the symbols behind it
Region/ Scale
→ Level of analysis of a process or place, or level in a hierarchy of places
→ Ex: Windsor is a place in the region of southwestern Ontario
→ Local/National/Global
Migration
→ People and things move between places
→ People aren’t static and it tends to produce dramatic changes that cause clashes.
Human – Environment Interaction
→ Patterns of resource use, where things are that we need to make stuff and live
→ Pollution and environmental quality
→ The burdens of poor environmental quality fall on minority regions because they
don’t have a voice of where harmful factories go
→ Vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters
→ Some places are more susceptible to disasters depending on how the government
handles the emergency
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Document Summary
Where something or some place is found: absolute location: latitude/ longitude. Physical distance: relative location: hierarchy of places and the relative speed it takes to get somewhere. This location changes because types of transportation have improved (we went from walking to driving to flying). Relatively, places get closer, but they"re absolutely the same. How people think or feel about a place and the symbols behind it. Level of analysis of a process or place, or level in a hierarchy of places. Ex: windsor is a place in the region of southwestern ontario. People aren"t static and it tends to produce dramatic changes that cause clashes. Patterns of resource use, where things are that we need to make stuff and live. The burdens of poor environmental quality fall on minority regions because they don"t have a voice of where harmful factories go.
