GEOG 5 Lecture 2: Geog5Lecture2
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A human geographic perspective helps us understand our world and appreciate other communities circumstances. Approaches to geography: regional (general, systematic (specific) What spatial patterns describe migration: refugees, mobility & migration, motivations to migrate, refugees. Refugee: a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution. Cartogram: map that uses statistical data to transform space to appear in proportion to the values. A record number of people were displaced in 2017 for 5th. More than 100 migrants feared dead in capsizing off tunisia. 1st law of geography (tobler"s law): "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. " Brazil sends military to border to cope with flood of fleeing venezuelans. 200 nicaraguans claim asylum daily in costa rica, fleeing violent unrest. Rejected by italy, thousands of migrants from africa risk the alps to research france. Report: facts about migrants don"t always match what the headlines say: mobility and migration.
