GEOG 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Columbian Exchange, Ecological Footprint, Biological Engineering
13 Jun 2018
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Geography is about:
The world we live in
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How the world is changing
Climate change, rising sea levels
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Your world and my world
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Future of our world
Our reliance on technology and fossil fuels
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Nature and the Environment
Understanding the different perspectives of nature
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Human impacts on the environment/natural world
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Silent Spring
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GMO's and bioengineering
Feeding sheep products to cattle ---> mad cow disease
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Agricultural beginnings, Columbian exchange, industrial revolution
Change in diet
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Continuous impact
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Ecological footprint
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Globalization/Economic Development
World system theory and economic structure
Core, semi-periphery, periphery
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Primary, secondary, tertiary industries
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Indicators of economic and social development
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Globalization and unevenness
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Flat world/spiky world/crumpled world
Flat world: equal opportunity for everyone
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Time-distance compression, everything travels faster
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Three categories of humanity
Globals, mobals, locals
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Urbanization
Urbanizing world
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Urban form and urban systems
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World cities
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Mega-cities
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Urban agglomerations
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Agriculture
Geography of different agriculture
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Environmental impacts, alternatives
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Forms of agriculture
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Culture and Identity
Culture defined
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Identities
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Languages
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Cultural trains, representations and expressions
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The 'others'
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Nation, imagined community
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Cultural landscape and place
Identities and landscape
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Toponyms
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Importance of place - construction of place (location, locale,
sense of place)
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Review
Monday, December 4, 2017
8:37 AM
