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Unit 1: Introduction To Human Geography

Human geography is the study of how people interact with places and the environment. It examines the relationships between people, locations, and natural environments. Human geography differs from physical geography in its focus on human activities and social processes rather than natural systems. It uses quantitative and qualitative methods from social sciences to provide spatial analysis of topics like cultural geography, economic geography, health geography, and more. The philosophy of human geography has diversified over time with developments like behavioral geography, radical geography, and the cultural turn integrating social theory. Today, human geography incorporates many approaches and continues to evolve.

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Unit 1: Introduction To Human Geography

Human geography is the study of how people interact with places and the environment. It examines the relationships between people, locations, and natural environments. Human geography differs from physical geography in its focus on human activities and social processes rather than natural systems. It uses quantitative and qualitative methods from social sciences to provide spatial analysis of topics like cultural geography, economic geography, health geography, and more. The philosophy of human geography has diversified over time with developments like behavioral geography, radical geography, and the cultural turn integrating social theory. Today, human geography incorporates many approaches and continues to evolve.

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Unit 1: Introduction to

Human Geography
Meaning of Human Geography

A SHORT DEFINITION FOR HUMAN


GEOGRAPHY

The study of the interrelationships between people, place, and environment, and how these vary
spatially and temporally across and between locations. Whereas physical geography concentrates on spatial
and environmental processes that shape the natural world and tends to draw on the natural and physical
sciences for its scientific underpinnings and methods of investigation, human geography concentrates on the
spatial organization and processes shaping the lives and activities of people, and their interactions with places
and nature. Human geography is more allied with the social sciences and humanities, sharing their
philosophical approaches and methods (see physical geography for a discussion on the relationship between
human and physical geography; environmental geography).

Human geography consists of a number of sub-disciplinary fields that focus on different elements of
human activity and organization, for example, cultural geography, economic geography, health geography,
historical geography, political geography, population geography, rural geography, social geography, transport
geography, and urban geography. What distinguishes human geography from other related disciplines, such
as development, economics, politics, and sociology, are the application of a set of core geographical concepts
to the phenomena under investigation, including space, place, scale, landscape, mobility, and nature. These
concepts foreground the notion that the world operates spatially and temporally, and that social relations do not
operate independently of place and environment, but are thoroughly grounded in and through them.

With respect to methods, human geography uses the full sweep of quantitative and qualitative methods
from across the social sciences and humanities, mindful of using them to provide a thorough geographic
analysis. It also places emphasis on fieldwork and mapping (see cartography), and has made a number of
contributions to developing new methods and techniques, notably in the areas of spatial analysis, spatial
statistics, and GI Science.

The long-term development of human geography has progressed in tandem with that of the discipline
more generally (see geography). Since the Quantitative Revolution in the 1950s and 1960s, the philosophy
underpinning human geography research has diversified enormously. The 1970s saw the introduction of
behavioral geography, radical geography, and humanistic geography. These were followed in the 1980s by a
turn to political economy, the development of feminist geography, and the introduction of critical social theory
underpinning the cultural turn. Together these approaches formed the basis for the growth of critical
geography, and the introduction of postmodern and post-structural thinking into the discipline in the 1990s.
These various developments did not fully replace the theoretical approaches developed in earlier periods, but
rather led to further diversification of geographic thought. For example, quantitative geography continues to be
a vibrant area of geographical scholarship, especially through the growth of GI Science. The result is that
geographical thinking is presently highly pluralist in nature, with no one approach dominating.

(Castree, N., Kitchin, R., & Rogers, A. (2013). "Human geography." In A Dictionary of Human
Geography. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 Mar. 2017)
- https://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/human_geography (Retrieved 5, August 2020
9:06pm)

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