GEOG 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Subsistence Agriculture, World-Systems Theory, Soil Fertility
18 Mar 2014
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Landscapes and places: settings for social interactions, structures of routines (social and economic, opportunities and constraints, contest social norms, everyday context in which knowledge and experiences are gathered, ex: parliament building (canadian place) Places and regions are interdependent = it is remote but not isolated tied to a larger processes of change that are reflected in a larger scale geographical patterns. Example: landscapes are connected such as the copper mine in chile, where people work somewhere else and live somewhere else. The copper mine in chile is connected to the world through the market economy. Process and pattern change in landscape. The direction and trajectory of a landscape can shift depending on one"s perspective: e. g. mesquite and cattle ranching in arizona, usa (degradation or conservation?, fruit trees in peru, oil palm trees in sierra leone. We can"t always assume direction of landscape change. We can easily misread landscapes not always clear which direction change is headed.
