People and Models Flashcards
Zelinsky
Student of Saur, cultural geographer who supported American culture…
Jared Diamond
Author of Guns, Germs and Steel, concerning environmental determinism and geographic luck
Carl Saur
Discussed cultural geography, fierce critic of environmental determinism, supported cultural ecology, Cultural Landscapes
Alfred Wegener
Continental drift/Plate Tectonic Theory
Malthus
Distopian view of the future, food growth is arithmetic and population growth is geometric. Despite population checks, starvation will continue.
E. G. Ravenstein
Law of Migration, gravity model, distance decay
Marx
Capitalism creates class struggle and unequal distribution of wealth, socialism promotes equal wealth, society and food
Esther Boserup
Opposite of Malthus (Boserup Thesis): said population growth stimulated agriculture production/technology—will never reach carrying capacity as a new invention will increase it. However, there are diminishing nutrients.
Alfred Mahan
Sea Power Theory
Friedrich Ratzel
German, discussed geopolitics and lebenstraum, proposed that a country will function as an organism–to survive it needs resources, which in turn means it needs territory to gain political power. Environmental Determinism
Halford MacKinder
Heartland Theory, Hearts are Kinder
Gimbutas
Kurgan hypothesis
Nicholas Spykman
Rimland Theory
Think: spikes are used at the rims of land for protection
Renfrew
Anatolian hypothesis
Garreau
The Nine Nations of North America
Borlaug
Father of the Green Revolution
J. H. von Thunen
Isolated state
Burgess
Concentric Zone Model