GEOG 1HA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Absolute Time And Space, Ganachakra, Proxemics
23 Feb 2015
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Human geographic concepts: geography involves two basic endeavours, first the need to establish facts (geographic literacy knowing where places are and their characteristics). Second is the need to understand and explain the facts, (geographic knowledge): an idiographic approach is concerned with individual phenomena; traditional empiricist regional geography, a nomothetic approach, formulates generalizations or laws. Location is a basic concept; it refers to a particular position within space, usually a position on the earth"s surface. Can be distinguished by relative location or absolute location: geographers also distinguish between site and situation. Site refers to the local characteristic of a location, whereas situation refers to a location relative to other locations. Place: refers to not only location, but also and more specifically to the values that we associate with that location. Also they recognize a functional region which is a region that comprises a series of linked locations.
