Geography 1500F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: University Of Western Ontario, Ecosystem Services, Spatial Scale
17 Dec 2016
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Space and place in geography: space is the location of events, places and phenomena. Where things occur; represented on maps: place is an organized space where social relations and identity are constituted. Involves culture, meaning, sense of place: example: uwo as a space and place. Uwo as a space: physical location in london, an educational institute. Uwo as a place: academic reputation, purple pride, and party school? (subjective) Spatial scale: classifying with large approximation. Time-space compression: line is seen as linear, technology (cid:494)shrinks(cid:495) the world (cid:523)eg. skype(cid:524) and farther, rapid travel and communications let people and goods travel faster, physical distance becomes less relevant, but this is an uneven process. Whether technology shrinks our world depends on the circumstances. Biking up a hill to go to school. Regulating: reduces greenhouse gases regulating climate. Can have negative impacts in each category: allows us to quantify the value of ecosystem services to include them in calculations.
