GEO 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tiger Economy, Environmental Determinism, Central Canada
4 Apr 2016
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Geography helps us understand our world: provides the environment where human activity unfolds, features in a particular area shapes the values and beliefs of those that live in particular areas. Geographic conditions: we are trying to explain patterns of geographic environmetns, we can begin to forcast geographic events based on conditions. Migration patterns based on conditions in a area. The additions of policies to control and manipulate areas. Today geographers are concerned with the human side: physical environment shaped by culture economy and technology, physical environment shapes culture, economy, and tech. Regional belonging, common identity and consciousness: sense of place. A region as a synthesis of physical and human characteristics that produces a unique character, including sense of place and power. Faultlines within canada: a geological metaphor applied to economic, social, and political cracks that dicide regions and people. These threaten to destabilize canada"s integrity as a nation: four major faultlines. Leans most heavily on canada"s geographic and political system.
