WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?

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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

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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

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WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?

• A STUDY OF GLOBALIZATION
• A SET OF PROCESSES INCREASING INTERACTIONS,
  DEEPENING RELATIONSHIPS, AND HEIGHTENING
  INTERDEPENDENCE WITHOUT REGARD TO NATION BORDERS

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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 ITTO MAKE IT
  TH EPLACE IT IS TODAY.

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GEOGRAPHY-TYPES

• HUMAN (CULTURAL)
• PHYSICAL (LAND)

• LANGUAGE, RELIGION, IDENTITY
• LANDFORMS, CLIMATE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

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EVOLUTION OF GEOGRAPHY

• GREECE
• AIDED BY HELP FROM EGYPTIANS AND MESOPOTAMIANS
  AND INDIA AND CHINA
• GE, GEO-EARTH
• GRAPHE-TO DESCRIBE, WRITE
• SEE ARTICLE

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DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY

• SEE READING ASSIGNMENT
• GEOGRAPHERS USE SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE (THE
  OBSERVATION GEO. PHENOMENA ACROSS SPACE) FOR
  STUDY.
• RESULT
• FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

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FIVE 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?

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FIVE 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

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FIVE THEMES

• MOVEMENT
• INTERCONNECTEDNESS
• SPATIAL INTERACTION DEPENDING ON DISTANCE,
  ACCESSIBILITY, AND CONNECTIVITY
• UNDERSTANDING INTERACTION IMPORTANT ASPECT OF
  GLOBAL SPATIAL ORDER
• REMEMBER GLOBALIZATION

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INTRODUCTION, HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

• 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

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• NO PRISTENE PLACE
• HUMAN ACTIVITY INTERACTING WITH LANDSCAPE
• YEARS OF ACTIVITY/IMPRINTS ON THE
  LANDSCAPE-SEQUENT OCCUPANCE
• THE WALK AROUND CAMPUSWHAT IS THAT AND WHY IS
  THAT THERE?!

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GEOGRAPHY 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

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• 4.STATISTICAL
• 5.CARTOGRAM
• 6.DOT
• 7.CHOROPLETH
• 8.ISOLINE

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GEOGRAPHY 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

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• 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.

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• REMOTE SENSING-DISTANCE TECHNOLOGY
• TIME ZONES

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SCALE 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

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• 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

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REGIONS OF GEOGRAPHY

• DEFINED AREA OF SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS
• THE CRITERIA TO DESCRIBE A REGION

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• 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

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CULTURAL REGIONS OF THE WORLD

• 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

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DENSITY

• 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)

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DISPERSION

• DISPERSION OR CONCENTRATION
• HOW PHENOMENA ARE SPREAD OUT OVER SPACE
• DISPERSED OR SCATTERED
• CLUSTERED OR AGGLOMERATED