Geography 1400F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Geographic Information System, Spatial Analysis, Human Geography
13 Apr 2016
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Evidently geography means, to write about the world . Three themes central to any study of the humans and world: relations between humans and land, regionalization, spatial analysis examining how regions are connected in certain ways. The human world is the ever changing product of the activities of human beings to modify the pre-existing physical conditions of the earth: as individuals and as group members working within human and institutional frameworks (communities, governments) Human geographers often focus on the evolution of the human world with reference to people, their cultures, and physical environments. As human geographers, we are interested in landscape both for what it is, and for what it means to live in it. Things that we do to modify the landscape. Understanding the human world requires that we explain location (why things are where they are) Typically a geographer uses a spatial analysis approach to tackle this question through: theory construction, models, hypothesis testing, using quantitative methods.
