Geography 1400F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thematic Map, Distance Decay, Spatial Analysis
13 Apr 2013
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A regional study is the study of environmental effects of possible future projects in a region. Spatial analysis is basically looking at the data and relationship between features: it is the writing about the human world to increase our understanding of it, people are dynamic, information processors and active agents that shape the environment. Place consists of physical site and sense of place. Physical site is materials located in space and sense of place is immaterial things attributed to physical sites. Landscape is representation or view of environment: inductive reasoning is down to top which is specific to general. Deductive reasoning is top to down which is general to specific. Steps are; there should be a general principle, research carried out to see if it works on specific circumstances, experiments to validate, law or theory established: researchers, such as interview, collect primary data sources.
