Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Distance Decay, Natalism, Geocoding
7 Nov 2017
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Of ce hours: monday 1:30pm 3:30pm or by appointment. 1: tools of geographic analysis (e. g. maps, gis. ) Introduction - what is human geography? geography: geographies of globalization, population issues, human impacts on the natural environment, geographies of development and global inequality, culture, landscapes, identities and places, agriculture, urbanization urban trends, urban problems, industrialization. Lecture 1 reading: introduction and chapter 1 p 17-20. The roots of the word geography" are greek: Three themes central to any study of the humans and world: relations between humans and land, regionalization, spatial analysis. Regional studies: to facilitate the task of writing about the world, human geographers often divide large areas into smaller areas that exhibit a degree of unity. Building on a long tradition, contemporary human geography considers regions at a wide range of scales from local to global. In acknowledging the relevance of different spatial scales of analysis, human geography reveals the importance of place in all aspects of our lives.
