GEOG 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anthropocentrism, Non-Renewable Resource, Ecocentrism
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Environmental geography: systems of a variety of spatial and temporal scales. is a study of the interrelationship between human and biophysical. Is the actual number of individuals in a population. is a measurement of population size per unit area, i. e. , population size divided by total land area. Places which are sparsely populated contain few people. Places which are densely populated contain many people. Sparsely populated places tend to be dif cult places to live. An increase in the number of people that reside in a country, state, county, or city. To determine whether there has been population growth, the following formula is used: (birth rate + immigration) - (death rate + emigration). A resource is a source or supply from which bene t is produced. Typically resources are materials, energy, services, staff, knowledge, or other assets that are transformed to produce bene t and in the process may be consumed or made unavailable.