GEOG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmental Determinism, Cultural Landscape, Determinism
15 Aug 2015
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Relationship between people and nature: environmental determinism = climate/location that is responsible for cultural diversity. Debate for poverty in the tropical regions such as environment fault/climate handicap societies, colonial experience legacy/powers fault, people"s goverment fault/corruption. //human activity is determined by human action/ making choices, not by physical environment, and chocies are due to knowledge, skills, technologies and financial resources. Cultural landscapes humans as modifiers of the earth. Carl o. sauer pioner in cultural/human geography rejected environmental determinism, believe people have the ability to modify surroundings, stress the importance of landscape. Cultural landscape / humanized landscape outcome of the complex interation between people and the natural landscape, the interaction is constant between people and nature. Objective a location has its political, economic, social and cultural uniqueness//distinguished by unique social and physical characteristics. Subjectiv the social and cultural construct of somewhere that has personal meaning for individuals or groups// ordinary palces with special meaning such as part of our identity, cultural symbols.
