Concepts - Lecture 2 Flashcards
Geogreaphy is the study of …
people-environment relations across time and space
Human Geography is the study of …
the inter-relationship of people (as individuals and groups) with geographic space, the physical & the social environment over time, from local to global scales (Clark, 2003)
Human geographies explore …
the Social, Economic, Cultural, Political and Demographic Dimensions of human existence
5 Key concepts of human geography
Place, Space, Scale, Mobility, Time
Place is …
a meaningful site that combines location, locale, and sense of place
Space
(1) A ‘container’ where certain social relations exist.
(2) exploring how the space has been understood by individuals
Scale can be viewed in 3 main ways
As a quantitative measure, a level (qualitative category) and as a relation
Mobility
the constant movement of people, products and ideas through and across space
Mobility vs Movement
mobility is the ability to move and movemet is the physical action
Time
how temporal varibility has been observed and linked to the change in environments and processes
