GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Virtual Water, Land Grabbing, Geopolitics
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Chapter 1 & 2- geography in your life, maps and map projecions, the world-system theory. Human geography- the study of the spaial organizaion of human acivity and of peoples relaionships with their environments; geography helps us understand complex histories that shaped our present and allows us to set boundaries for the future. Spaial analysis can help us with beter decision making, planning future acions, prevent future mistakes. Places provide the seings for people"s daily lives and their social relaions (strong inluence on peoples well-being, opportuniies, and lifestyle choices) Contribute to peoples collecive memory becoming powerful emoional and cultural symbols. Globalizaion afecing importance of place: cherish local idenity, faster low of informaion. Human geographers also look at the spaial relaion of groups of people allowing for them to understand the interrelaionships between nature, culture, and individual human agency in shaping places and regions.
