ATS1309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ecological Footprint, Population Ageing, Food Security
Document Summary
Social, political, economic and cultural implications from patterns of where people live. Population aging and immigration patterns affecting housing, education, health care, transportation, economic productivity. Key point: matters because the changing composition & spatial distribution of human populations changes the relationship of humans to their environments and to each other. Phenomenon scale the size of actual human or natural processes and phenomena. Cartographic scale the size of features depicted on a map relative to their size in the real world (small scale small area on map is big on earth. Large scale map is closer to a relationship of 1:1, 1 m on map is 1 unit on earth) Analysis scale the size of the unit of analysis. Scale matters for how we: define problems and challenges, understand the distribution of spatial phenomena, analyse data that provides evidence of spatial phenomena (& appreciate data limitations) Size and growth rate population size is increasing but growth rate is dropping.
