WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?

• A STUDY OF PEOPLE AND PLACES• A STUDY OF HOW PEOPLE MAKE

PLACES, ORGANIZE SPACE AND SOCIETY, INTERACT ACROSS SPACE, AND MAKE SENSE OF OTHERS AND OURSELVES IN OUR LOCALITIES, REGIONS, AND THE WORLD

• A STUDY OF SPATIAL SCIENCE• A STUDY OF SPATIAL VARIATION

WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?

• A SPATIAL STUDY-PERTAINING TO SPACE

• AN INTEREST IN SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS OF PLACES AND PHENOMENA, HOW LAID OUT, ORGANIZED, ARRANGED, AND HOW THEY APPEARED ON LANDSCAPE

WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?

• A STUDY OF GLOBALIZATION• A SET OF PROCESSES INCREASING

INTERACTIONS, DEEPENING RELATIONSHIPS, AND HEIGHTENING INTERDEPENDENCE WITHOUT REGARD TO NATION BORDERS

THINK!THINK!

• THINK OF THE REMOTEST PLACE YOU CAN THINK OF IN THE WORLD ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

• DESCRIBE HOW G. HAS CHANGED THIS PLACE AND HOW THE PEOPLE THERE CONTINUE TO SHAPE IT—TO MAKE IT TH EPLACE IT IS TODAY.

GEOGRAPHY-TYPESGEOGRAPHY-TYPES

• HUMAN (CULTURAL)

• PHYSICAL (LAND)

• LANGUAGE, RELIGION, IDENTITY

• LANDFORMS, CLIMATE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

EVOLUTION OF GEOGRAPHYEVOLUTION OF GEOGRAPHY

• GREECE

• AIDED BY HELP FROM EGYPTIANS AND MESOPOTAMIANS AND INDIA AND CHINA

• GE, GEO-EARTH

• GRAPHE-TO DESCRIBE, WRITE

• SEE ARTICLE

DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHYDEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY

• SEE READING ASSIGNMENT

• GEOGRAPHERS USE SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE (THE OBSERVATION GEO.

PHENOMENA ACROSS SPACE) FOR STUDY.

• RESULT:

• FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHYFIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

• LOCATION

• HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

• REGION

• CONTEXT WITHIN WHICH EVENTS AND PROCESSES ARE LOCATED

• WHY ARE PLACES WHERE THEY ARE?

• RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS AND PHYSICAL WORLD

• WHAT ARE LONGTERM RESULTS OF GULF OILSPILL?

• AREA OF GEO. PHENOMENA

• WHY DID THE AUTHOR WRITE ABOUT THE REGION?

FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHYFIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

• PLACE

• MOVEMENT

• AREA, POSITION ON EARTH WITH UNIQUE PHY. AND HUMAN DESCRIPTORS

• SENSE OF PLACE (MEANING, EMOTION, CHARACTER)

• PERCEPTION OF PLACE• (IF YOU COULD MOVE ANY

PLACE TO LIVE, WHERE WOULD IT BE?)

• MOBILITY OF PEOPLE, PLACES, IDEAS

FIVE THEMESFIVE THEMES

• MOVEMENT• INTERCONNECTEDNESS• SPATIAL INTERACTION DEPENDING ON DISTANCE,

ACCESSIBILITY, AND CONNECTIVITY

• UNDERSTANDING INTERACTION : IMPORTANT ASPECT OF GLOBAL SPATIAL ORDER

• REMEMBER GLOBALIZATION

INTRODUCTION, HUMAN INTRODUCTION, HUMAN GEOGRAPHYGEOGRAPHY

• CORE ELEMENTS OF GEO.

• 1. FIVE THEMES

• 2. LANDSCAPE• THE MATERIAL CHARACTER OF A PLACE

INCLUDING NATURAL FEATURES, HUMAN STRUCTURES, AND OTHER OBJECTS THAT GIVE A PLACE FORM.

• CULTURAL LANDSCAPE: THE IMPRINT OF HUMAN ACTIVITY ON LANDSCAPE

• NO PRISTENE PLACE• HUMAN ACTIVITY INTERACTING WITH LANDSCAPE• YEARS OF ACTIVITY/IMPRINTS ON THE

LANDSCAPE-SEQUENT OCCUPANCE

• THE WALK AROUND CAMPUS…WHAT IS THAT AND WHY IS THAT THERE?!

GEOGRAPHY TOOLSGEOGRAPHY TOOLS

• MAPS• 1.REFERENCE-LOCATION OF PLACES AND

GEO. FEATURES• ABSOLUTE LOCATION• RELATIVE LOCATION• 2.THEMATIC-TELL A STORY, SHOW

MOVEMENT• 3.MENTAL-PLACES IN OUR MINDS• ACTIVITY SPACES-ROUTINE TRAVEL

DAILY

• 4.STATISTICAL

• 5.CARTOGRAM

• 6.DOT

• 7.CHOROPLETH

• 8.ISOLINE

GEOGRAPHY TOOLSGEOGRAPHY TOOLS

• DISTORTION-THE “STRETCHING OF MAPS”

• GIS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

• GPS, GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM• MODELS- SIMPLIFIED ABSTRACTION OF

REALITY TO EXPLAIN WHY AND TO EXPLAIN PATTERNS, MAKE DECISIONS, AND PREDICT BEHAVIORS

• PROJECTIONS- The systematic way in which a curved surface is represented on a flat plane (such as a page in an atlas) is

called a map projection.

• REMOTE SENSING-DISTANCE TECHNOLOGY

• TIME ZONES

SCALE AND CONNECTIVITYSCALE AND CONNECTIVITY

• SCALE• 1. DISTANCE ON MAP COMPARED TO

DISTANCE ON EARTH• 2. THE TERRITORIAL EXTENT OF

SOMETHING• GEOGRAPHERS STUDY PATTERNS

AND PLACES AT MANY SCALES: LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL

• THE SCALE AT WHICH GEO. PHENOMENA IS STUDIED INFORMS OF LEVEL OF DETAIL.

• DIFFERENT PATTERNS AT DIFFERENT SCALES

• EX. DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH AT SCALE OF GLOBE, NORTH AM, D.C.

• RESCALING, AKA, JUMPING SCALE• EX., ZAPATISTAS IN S. MEXICO, CHIAPAS

STATE, NAFTA

REGIONS OF GEOGRAPHYREGIONS OF GEOGRAPHY

• DEFINED: AREA OF SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS

• THE CRITERIA TO DESCRIBE A REGION:

• 1.FORMAL (AKA UNIFORM OR HOMOGENEOUS)

• 2. FUNCTIONAL

• 3. PERCEPTUAL

• SOME HOMOGENEITY (SAMENESS) IN CRITERION PHENOMENA, CULTURAL OF PHYSICAL

• EX. FRENCH SPEAKING REGION IN EUROPE…

• ACTIVITIES OR INTERACTIONS TAKE PLACE

• EX. CITY AND SURROUNDING AREA

• IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE; INTELLECTUAL CONSTRUCTS

• EX. MIDDLE EAST

CULTURAL REGIONS OF THE CULTURAL REGIONS OF THE WORLDWORLD

• NORTH AMERICA• LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA• EUROPE• MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA• AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA• RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA, AND TRANSCAUCASIAN

REGION• SOUTH ASIA• EAST ASIA• SOUTHEAST ASIA• AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND PACIFIC ISLANDS

DENSITYDENSITY

• Population density is a measurement of population per unit area.

• Arithmetic density, specifically, is the total number of people divided by the total land area. (how many people per area of land)

• Physiological density is the total number of people per area of arable land. ( how much land is being used by how many people)

DISPERSIONDISPERSION

• DISPERSION OR CONCENTRATION

• HOW PHENOMENA ARE SPREAD OUT OVER SPACE

• DISPERSED OR SCATTERED

• CLUSTERED OR AGGLOMERATED