GEOG 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Geography, Leading Edge
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Human-environment interacions: how do humans relate to and interact with their environment, simple dichotomy or something more, percepions of nature and environment: Core hinterland, north/south dynamic: core: place of poliical power, wealth, populaion. Region: an area of the earth"s surface deined by its disincive human and/or natural characterisics. Divides a larger area into a smaller area based on a set of criteria. Based on a meaningful unity of the criteria. Purpose for delimiing and deining a region oten shapes where boundaries are drawn: types of regions: Regions organized around a system of interacion with a focal point linked by transportaion or communicaion. Regions deined by our shared percepion of the space. Waning inluence of the disincive characterisics and the increasing inluences of another set of disincive characterisics. A space on the leading edge in fronier. Advancement of the disincive characterisics going outward from the center. Highly dynamic zones for both acivity and change.
