21st Century Terms Flashcards
Adaptation
Ability to respond to changing evengs to reduce vulnerability
Attachment
Linkages between individuals, groups and places
Causality
Relationship between cayse and effect
Difference
The way that places/populations etc are dissimilar (statistically, qualitatively, opinions)
Feedback
The way environmental changes are accelerated or negated by processes in a human/physical system
Globalisation
Impact of world development on various scales // Increased interconnectivity due to integration and interdependence
Identity
How places mean different things to different people due to perspectives and experiences
Inequality
Social and economic differences between people and places (Schiller - greatest threat to society today)
Interdependence
Mutual reliance worldwide (economy, trade, communications)
Meaning
What someone understsnds from what is observed, and how the info is represented
Mitigation
Reduction of a phenomenon with a negative impact
Place
Geographic space occupied by person/thing to which meaning has been attached (shaped by development, changes and relationships)
Representation
How a place is portrayed by formal agencies
Resilience
Ability to adapt to negative changes
Risk
Possibility of an event having negative impacts on an area/population
