GEOG222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Shield, Food Security, Cultural Mosaic

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG222
• Professor: Nancy Worth

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Geog 222 lecture 2 - january 5, 2017. The definition of regional geography has evolved over time. The study about what makes various regions of the world unique (physical and/or social) Originally wanted to divide the world into regions that possessed some cultural, historical or linguistic coherence. In the beginning it didn"t include the usa because it was the typical site of the start of the studies. They wanted to look at what was happening outside of the. Centre and the usa didn"t seem worthy of study: this has changed over time. Regional geography comes from the idea that there are natural world regions: split by a. j. Became an early discipline in the early 1900s. Regional geography has a bit of a problematic history: looking at others rather than looking at ourselves, the definition of a region. Now, we are thinking of a region as a complex and open system: don"t look at one region with a boundary.