GPHY 101 Study Guide - Ecology, International Development, Pedogenesis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne M C Godlewska

Document Summary

Gphy 101 week 1 readings (2011) uprisings washed across the arab world. Organized via social networks and text messaging. **uprising due to rising prices of food specifically, bread (staple of poor people"s nutrition) There exists an increasing geographic interdependence of the world: i. e. food price increases in bread was due to increasing food consumption in other parts. Climate change of such degree further contributed to the increasing prices of food. Poor people worldwide struggled to pay for bread: results in a feedback loop. Geography: the process of recognizing and understanding the interdependence among places and regions, without loosing sight of the uniqueness of each specific place. Helps understand and promote multicultural, international, and feminist perspectives on the. Provides real opportunities to contribute to local, national, and global development world: there exist 2 main branches of geography. Human geography: the study of the spatial organization of human activity and of people"s relationships with their environments.