GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Spatial Analysis, Unintended Consequences, Health Geography
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The study of phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places. One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. Main 4 points: how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other, how we make sense of ourselves and others. The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. Good: government gets more money, gdp increases, world knows they exist, get new resources. Bad: unintended consequences (ex: kenya, group of people usually worse off (ex: kenya) physical geography. One of the two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of the earth"s natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography. Pertaining to space on the earth"s surface. Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.
