GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Geography, Spatial Analysis
29 Jul 2020
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Environment: humans are altering the planet at an unprecedented rate, causing sometimes drastic effects on ecosystems and the climate. Multiple environmental factors often interact to influence the vulnerability of a location to the impacts of climate change. Globalization and development: global flow of information, goods, and people are transforming patterns of economic development. Local self-sufficiency is giving way to global interdependence as people and places are increasingly becoming connected, sometimes across vast distances. Power and politics: there are major differences across the world in the ways that power is wielded in societies. Modes of governing that are more authoritarian are based on the power of the state or community leaders. Modes that are based on notions of political freedom and democracy give the general public greater power over themselves and more of a role in deciding how policies are developed and governments are run. There are also many other ways of managing political power.
