GEOG101 Lecture 18: Chapter 4 Environmental Geography Part 1

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Amanda Hooykaas

Document Summary

How geographers see the environment: old, natural environment, physical/natural conditions of an area, culture/landscape interactions, cultural landscape modification, human adaptations to local habitats, new, human impacts on environment, sustainability, climate change, hazardous environments, adapting to hazard, risk reduction. Human impacts on environment: humans: incredible power to modify & impact environment, some unavoidable (basic needs, resource consumption, waste production, food