Human geography

From Geography

In 'The dictionary of human geography' described as: "A major field of geography that is centrally concerned with the ways in which place, space and environment are both the condition and in part the consequence of human activities." Before, the field of geography mainly consisted of the natural and physical sciences. This was focussed on 'making sense of nature' and studying the variation of human activities on the surface of the Earth. Most important was the relation between peoples and their physical environment. This wasn't purely scientific. Human geography consists of many different influences such as philosophical, theological, sociological and political influences. Later, a lot of different fields in geography emerged, such as political geography, mainly concerned with the state, territory and geopolitics, economic geography, emerged from commercial geography and cultural geography, emphasizing the relations between people and their environments all over the world, all intersecting and overlapping each other (Gregory, Johnston, Pratt, Watts, Whatmore, 2009, p. 350).

References

Gregory, D, Johnston, R, Pratt, G, Watts, M.J. & Whatmore, S (2009) The dictionary of human geography, 5th edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell

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