GEO 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Romanticism, Environmental Determinism, Transcendentalism
13 Apr 2016
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Environmental determinism: through its grand force and subtle expressions, it limits or shapes society. Nature is a social creation, as much as it is the physical universe that includes human beings. Society is the sum of inventions, institutions and relationships created a reproduced by human beings across particular times and place. The emission of waste in the manufacture of goods and services. The emission of waste in the consumption of goods and services. Study of how human society has adapted to environmental challenges like aridity and steep landscapes through technologies such as irrigation and terracing and organizing people to construct and maintain these systems. Stresses that human environment relations can be adequately understood only by relating patterns of resource use to political and economic forces. It encouraged people to attempt to rise above nature and the limitations of the body to the point where the spirit dominates the flesh and mystical and spiritual life replace a primitive and savage one.
