GEO 702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Food Security, Determinism, Geomancy
12 Oct 2016
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Flexibility with resources will be our way out in regards to survival and food security for instance. Resources are flexible and sometimes we find more ways or improve efficiency to obtain them. They are based on wants and how we make decisions about the environment. The physical environment (emphasis on climate and terrain) is the active force in shaping the development of cultures. Human society is a passive product of physical surroundings. Similar physical environments would be likely to produce similar cultures. Trying to explain why societies have developed the way they do. The physical environment around us is the main influence in our decisions. Resources for instance, create the situations in which society needs to live in so the environment shapes society. Then, society is passive we let environment shape us. Q: in canada we depend a lot in our resources oil, water. Prairies are flat and it has the right type of soil and rainfall.
