GEOG120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmental Determinism, Shia Islam, Immigration Enforcement
27 Feb 2018
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Geography: study of the earth"s people/places/landscapes/environments and the interactions between them: human: interrelationships between people/place/environment/how they vary temporally and spatially. >2 major disciplines: physical: study of processes/patterns in the natural environment (spatial characteristics: biosphere/lithosphere/cryosphere/hydrosphere/atmosphere) across/between locations; qualitative/quantitative research. >geographers think about how phenomena manifest in relation to space and/or place and at different scales. Place: space made meaningful; socially constructed; same place different depending on the group/individual interacting with it. Landscape: material layout of the land; influenced by both physical/social regions area of land/sea that has common features to group together formed from many characteristics: physical/cultural/political/language scalar/homogenous. >formal region: physical/cultural characteristic that dominates the area. >functional region: aren"t as set in place/defined by activity or econ connection (east coast megalopolis) >vernacular: not defined by visible boundaries/peoples imaginearies as spatial stereotypes. Demography: study of size/structure/distribution over space and time of populations. 5 different stages of transition: generally applied to most pre-industrial populations.
