GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Integrated Geography, Political Ecology, Bastion
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Environmental geography bridging the human and environmental domains. Overall, we must understand the differentiations of the environment" and. Nature" and attend to the different ways these phenomenon enter into social life. Nature a. k. a (complicated world) many branches after this , carries social mean. No one nature, maybe no such thing as human nature. Forms of environmentalism are always politically loaded, carrying different values, representing different interests and have distinct ecological and social consequences. Market fundamentally divided: traditional approaches to environmental geography". Harold mackinder (1887) argues that geography can bridge one of the greatest gaps : namely separating the natural sciences and the study of humanity. Mackinder defined geography as the science whose main function is to trace the interaction of man [sic. ] in society and so much of his environment as varies locally. H. mackinder: geo can bridge many gaps. Geo was study the interaction b/w humans +environment: environmental geography: two approaches.
