GEOG 205

• - study of earths landscapes, peoples, places and environments.
• - to describe or write about the earth”.  The earth is not static, it evolves through time and space...

• - geographers study the spatial and temporal distribution of phenomena, processesand features as well as the interaction of humans and their environment.
• - humangeography and physical geography.

In some places meet, some places they are completely different

Physical <---> human/cultural

•  -reality is best described through scientific methods and through quantitative,numerical approaches
• - view of nature as separate from human world
• - Data/factsare presented without attention to context

• - reality is informed (constructed/enacted) by the ways in which we interpret and representit; view of natural and human worlds as interacting and co-evolving (and technology)
• - seesobserver and observed as independent - interaction, you see the world through your assumptions.  Any representation is not neutral

In a word Geography is a Science—a thing not ofmere names but of argument and reason, of cause and effect.”— William Hughes

• - Human/Nature relations
• - interactions between enviroment and humans impact on each other

• - society/space realatioins: how and where we are located
• - embodiment
• - social structures.

• - Space
• - Place
• - Enviroment

• - Physical dimentions: the location on the surface, cartography,
• - Social/cultural dimensions: spatiality, emphasizes the meaning of of space, rather than physical demensions

• - Boundaries or limits that define a recognized territory,
• - not independent of space
• - sense of home, identity and belonging

• - Humans are part of the natural enviroment; causes us to rethink the division between natural and human worlds
• - the processes that act upon earth (physical and human)

• Exploration of the world
•  - discovery, mapping and inventory-taking
• - to mid 19th century

• Establishment of the discipline
• - bridging nature and society; early theories of enviromentalism
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• late 19th century

Dominace of regional geography

- detailed area description, classifation and explanation fo regions

early 20th century

• Emergence of physical and human geography
• - development of systematic geographies; questioning the scientific basis of geography

mid 20th century

• - physical - intergrated - human- Geography
• - strongly divergent interest and specilization within

late 20th century onwards