GGR100H1 Lecture 1: GGR101 – Lecture 1
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Ggr101 lecture 1: introduction to historical ecology. A research program that looks at the past, present and future relationship between humans and their environment. Interdisciplinary in nature: geography, anthropology, sociology, biology, geology and more. Emphasis on people and the material conditions of their daily lives. Historical changes are a result of social conflict. Emphasis on biological and cultural adaptation to environments: culture change is induced by adaptation to the environment . Different rhythms of social structures in history: long, middle and short term. Emphasis on geography"s impact on long-term human activity, and less on the individual. Uses landscape as the unit of research. The term landscape is proposed to denote the unit concept of geography, to characterize the peculiarly geographic association of facts. Equivalent terms in a sense are area and region it may be defined, therefore, as an area made up of a distinct association of forms, both physical and cultural carl sauer (1925).
