GEOG 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, The Columbian Exchange, Enviropig
15 Dec 2017
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The relationship between people and the environment is perhaps the most central of all within the discipline of geography. (knox et al. ) Environmental studies: interdisciplinary, holistic, focused on environmental issues, social science, applied field. Geographers have greater tendency to analyze spatial dimensions of problems. Enst has greater tendency to consider philosophical, ethical, legal. Long history of human impacts on the environment: dramatic increase of these impacts. Human-nature relationship: thinking about people as part of the environment, or at least two closely interrelated systems (or, even a single system, many different views/understandings of nature. Predominant view in n. a. is a western view that tends to separate people from nature based on a long history of controlling and managing nature. Hence, nature is a reflection of society in that philosophies, belief systems, and ideologies shape the way people think about nature and the way they use it. Religious beliefs and cultural values also affect how resources are used: e. g.
