Geography 1400F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnography, Neoliberalism, Spatial Analysis
11 Jan 2018
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Three themes central to any study of the humans and world: relations between humans and the land, regionalization, spatial analysis. Spatial patterns description (what is where) Human geography studies the distribution of humans and their activities and the processes that generate these distributions. Gritzner: what is there? why there? and why care? . Goal: writing about the human world to increase our understanding. Practical and relevant study that teaches us about the world we live in and how we live in it. Geographic facts represent and affect human life. One strength of human geography is that it considers more than just one variable i. e. when studying population distribution we need to know about climate and the human perception of those climates. Central subject matter is human behaviour as it affects earths surface. Human geography is not restricted to one de ned subject. The human world is the ever-changing product of human beings as individuals and group members (communities, governments)
