GEOG 153C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: London Psychogeographical Association, Csn International, Environmental Determinism
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Lecture 1: geography studies earth as the home of humanity. Approaches to human geography: human-environment relations interrelationship of human activity and natural world varying philosophies a. b. c. environmental determinism cultural determinism/autonomy intermediate positions (possibilism, probabilism, an early deterministic quote from geographer ellen churchill semple (1911): Man is a product of the earth"s surface. 1st law of geography: everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things interaction between places depends on distance and their relative. Attractiveness to interaction a. physical gravity model (newton) fij = gmimj dij. 2 simple social gravity model iij = kpipj dij. K" is scaling constant for absolute number, often omitted population size used as mass here, many other possible (e. g. , ses, store size) exponent varies with interaction domain: classical economic geography. 1. focus on economic behavior and interaction (production, consumption, buying, selling, trading) b. c. d. e. Behavioral/cognitive approach: behavior in space and place.
