Regional Geography Flashcards
- Study of earth in general
- Climatology, economic, cultural geography, geomorphology, etc.
- Systematic Geography
General Geography
Made by Varenius
Geographia Generalis
Focus on the particular areas of the earth - regions, ____ geography also falls in this study.
Special Geography, Regional Geography
Space, areas, places, sub-regions, locations
Region
“What is the ______? between the human and physical worlds?” and “how can we account for _________?”
Connection, Spatial Difference
Identify the four approaches of
Regional Geography?
- Vidal de la Blache and French regional
geography - Hartshorne and the chorological point
of view - Soviet regional geography
- Bioregionalism
“Encompassing spatial and social identity” imprinted on landscape
Genre de vie
Causal relations between geographical
phenomena; theoretical focus was on
“areal differentiation.”
Chorological point of view
Planning based on the distribution of productive forces
Soviet regional geography
“coming together of biologically
defined realities (ex. watershed)
Bioregionalism
The dynamism of the economic system –
the basis of profitability – was enhanced in the early decades of the twentieth century by the introduction of ______?
Fordism
The transition to advanced capitalism was accompanied by an increasing ______? of the economy in which ________? operated often beyond the control of national governments or labour unions
Globalization, Transnational Corporations (TNC)
Globalization is seen in three forms, namely:
Economic Globalization
Political Globalization
Cultural Globalization
______? has been used to describe the
simultaneous operation of processes of:
- De-localisation or de-territorialisation evident, for example, in the instantaneity of e-mail communication across the globe.
- Re-localisation or re-territorialisation, whereby global influences interact with and are transformed within local context as, for example, in the creation of historic heritage districts in cities.
Glocalisation
