GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Information System, Qgis, Google Earth
Document Summary
Textbook definition - examining and explaining the spatial distribution of human features and activities, and impacts on the environment (within certain places, regions, or globally) Human features and activities - catering to many varieties of how human life effects geography. Professor"s favourite definition - charles gritzner on what is geography. What is where, why there, why care? . When breaking down the words, the what is where is about description - describing the environment, these are generic elements , describing human and physical geography, looking at patterns and interactions. involved - animals or people), explaining multi-demental cultures, Why there is about trying to explain what you see - explaining on agents (who is. The why care is about impacts - explaining the impacts of how or why things happen or have happened. Mental maps memories, means and knowledge of a location. Concept - in theory, is is the cognitive images representing a person"s perceptions, feelings.