Geography 1500F/G Final: Full Study Guide
15 Dec 2018
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Space "the locations of events, places and phenomena : where things occur often represented on maps, more objective. Place -- space is organized into places often thought of as bounded settings in which social relations and identity are constituted . Involves culture, meaning, sense of place: more subjective. Soja a hierarchy of nested locales: global, national, regional, local , not rigid and fixed. Temporal scale: time usually seen as linear, long/short term connections, choices of what spatial and temporal scales to consider can set boundaries how we interpret problems and solun"s. Time-space compression: technology shrinks the world : david harvey, rapid travel and communications let people and goods move faster, farther, but! There are tools to help us understand systems and interconnections. A way to account for different kinds of benefits that ecosystems provide. Makes visible many things that are usually invisible in economic discussions about benefits and costs.
