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Human geography

Index Human geography

Human geography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place. [1]

152 relations: Alexander von Humboldt, Allen J. Scott, American Association of Geographers, Anarchism, Animal geography, Animal rights, Antipode (journal), Area (journal), Élisée Reclus, Behavioral geography, Biogeography, Building, Carl O. Sauer, Carl Ritter, Cartography, Central place theory, Children's geographies, Chinese Americans, Cholera, Cindi Katz, Cognitive geography, Critical geography, Cultural ecology, Cultural geography, David Harvey, Denis Cosgrove, Derek Gregory, Development geography, Disease, Doreen Massey (geographer), Economic geography, Economic Geography (journal), Economy, Edward Said, Edward Soja, Electoral geography, England, Environment and Planning, Environmental determinism, Epidemiology, Evelyn Stokes, Evolutionary biology, Feminist geography, Fred K. Schaefer, Friedrich Ratzel, Gamal Hamdan, Geoforum, Geografiska Annaler, Geographic information system, Geographical Association, ..., Geography, Geography of food, Geology, Geomarketing, Geopolitics, Gillian Rose (geographer), Global Environmental Change, Globalization, Halford Mackinder, Health, Health care, Health geography, Historical geography, Humboldt University of Berlin, Imagined geographies, Imperialism, Infrastructure, Integrated geography, John Snow, Jovan Cvijić, Language geography, Lebensraum, London School of Economics, Marxist geography, Māori people, Michael Watts, Migration Letters, Military geography, Milton Santos, Mutual aid (organization theory), National Geographic Society, New Zealand, Nigel Thrift, Non-representational theory, Objectivity (science), Paul Vidal de La Blache, Peter Haggett, Peter Kropotkin, Physical geography, Physician, Political ecology, Political geography, Population density, Population geography, Positivism, Possibilism (geography), Post-structuralism, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, Progress in Human Geography, Psychoanalysis, Psychogeography, Qualitative property, Qualitative research, Quality of life, Quantitative research, Quantitative revolution, Racism, Regional geography, Regional science, Regionalisation, Religion and geography, Richard Chorley, Richard Hartshorne, Richard Peet, Royal Geographical Society, Rural area, Secondary sector of the economy, Settlement geography, Sexuality and space, Social ecology, Social geography, Social reproduction, Spatial analysis, Standard of living, Strategic geography, Synekism, Tertiary sector of the economy, The Geographical Pivot of History, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Time geography, Tobler's first law of geography, Torsten Hägerstrand, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Transport geography, United Kingdom, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Oxford, University of Waikato, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Urban area, Urban geography, Vautrin Lud Prize, Veganism, Waldo R. Tobler, Walter Christaller, Wilhelm von Humboldt, William Bunge, William Garrison (geographer), Xavier Hommaire de Hell, Yi-Fu Tuan, 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak. Expand index (102 more) »

Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

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Allen J. Scott

Allen John Scott (born 1938) is a professor of geography and public policy at University of California, Los Angeles.

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American Association of Geographers

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Animal geography

Animal geography is a subfield of the nature-society/human-environment branch of geography as well as a part of the larger, interdisciplinary umbrella of Human-Animal Studies (HAS).

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Animal rights

Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.

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Antipode (journal)

Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published five times per year by Wiley-Blackwell and produced by The Antipode Foundation.

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Area (journal)

Area is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Élisée Reclus

Jacques Élisée Reclus (15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist.

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Behavioral geography

Behavioral geography is an approach to human geography that examines human behavior using a disaggregate approach.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Building

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.

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Carl O. Sauer

Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer.

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Carl Ritter

Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779September 28, 1859) was a German geographer.

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Cartography

Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.

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Central place theory

Central place theory is a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in a residential system.

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Children's geographies

Children's geographies is an area of study within human geography and Childhood studies which involves researching the places and spaces of children's lives.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans, which includes American-born Chinese, are Americans who have full or partial Chinese ancestry.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Cindi Katz

Cindi Katz (born 1954 in New York City), a geographer, is Professor in Environmental Psychology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Women's Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Cognitive geography

Cognitive geography is an interdisciplinary study of cognitive science and geography.

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Critical geography

Critical geography is theoretically informed geographical scholarship that seeks for social justice, liberation, and Leftist politics.

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Cultural ecology

Cultural ecology is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments.

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Cultural geography

Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography.

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David Harvey

David W. Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is the Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

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Denis Cosgrove

Denis E. Cosgrove (3 May 1948 Liverpool – 21 March 2008 Los Angeles) was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Derek Gregory

Derek Gregory Ph.D. (Cantab) FBA, FRSC (born 1 March 1951) is a British academic and world-renowned geographer who is currently Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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Development geography

Development geography is a branch of geography which refers to the standard of living and its quality of life of its human inhabitants.

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Disease

A disease is any condition which results in the disorder of a structure or function in an organism that is not due to any external injury.

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Doreen Massey (geographer)

Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA FAcSS (3 January 1944 – 11 March 2016) was a British social scientist and geographer, working among others on topics involving Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography.

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Economic geography

Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.

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Economic Geography (journal)

Economic Geography is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Taylor & Francis on behalf of Clark University.

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Economy

An economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents.

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Edward Said

Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.

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Edward Soja

Edward William Soja (1940–2015) was a self-described "urbanist," a noted postmodern political geographer and urban theorist on the planning faculty at UCLA, where he was Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Economics.

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Electoral geography

Electoral geography is the analysis of the methods, the behavior, and the results of elections in the context of geographic space and using geographical techniques.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Environment and Planning

The Environment and Planning journals are five academic journals.

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Environmental determinism

Environmental determinism (also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism) is the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular development trajectories.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where) and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.

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Evelyn Stokes

Dame Evelyn Mary Stokes (née Dinsdale, 5 December 1936 – 15 August 2005) was a professor of geography at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and a member of the New Zealand government's Waitangi Tribunal.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.

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Feminist geography

Feminist geography is an approach in human geography which applies the theories, methods and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society and geographical space.

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Fred K. Schaefer

Fred Kurt Schaefer (July 7, 1904 – June 6, 1953) was a geographer.

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Friedrich Ratzel

Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844 – August 9, 1904) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum ("living space") in the sense that the National Socialists later would.

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Gamal Hamdan

Gamal Hamdan (February 2, 1928 – April 17, 1993) was an Egyptian scholar and geographer.

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Geoforum

Geoforum is a peer-reviewed academic journal of geography which focuses on social, political, economic, and environmental activities that occur around the globe within the context of geographical space and time.

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Geografiska Annaler

Geografiska Annaler is a scientific journal published by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography.

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Geographic information system

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.

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Geographical Association

The Geographical Association (GA) is a United Kingdom-based subject association whose objects are the advancement of education for the public benefit by furthering geographical knowledge and understanding, through the promotion and dissemination of good practice in geographical teaching and learning.

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Geography

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.

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Geography of food

The geography of food is a field of human geography.

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Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Geomarketing

Geomarketing is the integration of geographical intelligence into various aspects of marketing, including sales and distribution.

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Geopolitics

Geopolitics (from Greek γῆ gê "earth, land" and πολιτική politikḗ "politics") is the study of the effects of geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.

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Gillian Rose (geographer)

Gillian Rose FBA (born 1962) is a British geographer and geographic author.

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Global Environmental Change

Global Environmental Change is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on environmental change that was established in 1990.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Halford Mackinder

Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was an English geographer, academic, politician, the first Principal of University Extension College, Reading (which became the University of Reading) and Director of the London School of Economics, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy.

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Health

Health is the ability of a biological system to acquire, convert, allocate, distribute, and utilize energy with maximum efficiency.

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Health care

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

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Health geography

Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care.

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Historical geography

Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time.

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Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin), is a university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.

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Imagined geographies

The concept of imagined (also referred as imaginative) geographies originated from Edward Said, particularly his work on critique on Orientalism.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is a policy that involves a nation extending its power by the acquisition of lands by purchase, diplomacy or military force.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or other area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function.

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Integrated geography

Integrated geography (also referred to as integrative geography, environmental geography or human–environment geography) is the branch of geography that describes and explains the spatial aspects of interactions between human individuals or societies and their natural environment.

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John Snow

John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anesthesia and medical hygiene.

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Jovan Cvijić

Jovan Cvijić (Јован Цвијић,; 12 October 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbian geographer and ethnologist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and rector of the University of Belgrade.

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Language geography

Language geography is the branch of human geography that studies the geographic distribution of language(s) or its constituent elements.

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Lebensraum

The German concept of Lebensraum ("living space") comprises policies and practices of settler colonialism which proliferated in Germany from the 1890s to the 1940s.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as LSE) is a public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Marxist geography

Marxist geography is a strand of critical geography that uses the theories and philosophy of Marxism to examine the spatial relations of human geography.

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Māori people

The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.

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Michael Watts

Michael J. Watts (born 1951 in England) is "Class of 1963" Emeritus Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Migration Letters

Migration Letters is an international triannual (Jan.-May-Sep.) peer-reviewed academic journal of migration studies published by Transnational Press London since 2004.

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Military geography

Military geography is a sub-field of geography that is used by the military, as well as academics and politicians, to understand the geopolitical sphere through the military lens.

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Milton Santos

Milton Almeida dos Santos (born May 3, 1926 – June 24, 2001) was a Brazilian geographer who had a degree in law.

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Mutual aid (organization theory)

In organization theory, mutual aid is a voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nigel Thrift

Sir Nigel John Thrift, DL, FBA, FAcSS (born 12 October 1949 in Bath) is a British academic and geographer.

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Non-representational theory

Non-representational theory is a theory developed in human geography, largely through the work of Nigel Thrift (Warwick University), and his colleagues such as J.D. Dewsbury (University of Bristol) and Derek McCormack (University of Oxford), and later by their respective graduate students.

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Objectivity (science)

Objectivity in science is a value that informs how science is practiced and how scientific truths are discovered.

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Paul Vidal de La Blache

Paul Vidal de La Blache (Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 - Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer.

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Peter Haggett

Peter Haggett, CBE Sc.D. FBA (b. 24 January 1933) is an eminent British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban and Regional Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

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Peter Kropotkin

Pyotr Alexeevich Kropotkin (Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин; December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian activist, revolutionary, scientist and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism.

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Physical geography

Physical geography (also known as geosystems or physiography) is one of the two major sub-fields of geography.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Political ecology

Political ecology is the study of the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes.

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Political geography

Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Population geography

Population geography is a division of human geography.

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Positivism

Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that certain ("positive") knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations.

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Possibilism (geography)

Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.

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Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism is associated with the works of a series of mid-20th-century French, continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to be known internationally in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonised people and their lands.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Progress in Human Geography

Progress in Human Geography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of human geography, primarily publishing critical reviews of current research.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Psychogeography

Psychogeography is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting".

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Qualitative property

Qualitative properties are properties that are observed and can generally not be measured with a numerical result.

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Qualitative research

Qualitative research is a scientific method of observation to gather non-numerical data.

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Quality of life

Quality of life (QOL) is the general well-being of individuals and societies, outlining negative and positive features of life.

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Quantitative research

In natural sciences and social sciences, quantitative research is the systematic empirical investigation of observable phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques.

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Quantitative revolution

The quantitative revolution (QR)n was a paradigm shift that sought to develop a more rigorous and systematic methodology for the discipline of geography.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Regional geography

Regional geography is a major branch of geography.

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Regional science

Regional science is a field of the social sciences concerned with analytical approaches to problems that are specifically urban, rural, or regional.

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Regionalisation

Regionalization is the tendency to form decentralized regions.

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Religion and geography

Religion and geography is the study of the impact of geography, i.e. place and space, on religious belief.

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Richard Chorley

Richard John Chorley (4 September 1927 – 12 May 2002) was an English geographer, and Professor of Geography at Cambridge University, known as leading figure in quantitative geography in the late 20th century, who played an instrumental role in bringing in the use of systems theory to geography.

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Richard Hartshorne

Richard Hartshorne (December 12, 1899 – November 5, 1992) was a prominent American geographer, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in economic and political geography and the philosophy of geography.

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Richard Peet

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Secondary sector of the economy

The secondary sector of the economy includes industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction.

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Settlement geography

Settlement geography is a branch of geography that investigates the earth's surface's part settled by humans.

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Sexuality and space

Sexuality and space is a field of study within human geography.

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Social ecology

Social ecology is a critical social theory founded by American anarchist and libertarian socialist author Murray Bookchin.

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Social geography

Social geography is the branch of human geography that is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenomena and its spatial components.

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Social reproduction

Social reproduction is a concept originally proposed by Karl Marx in Das Kapital, and is a variety of his broader idea of reproduction.

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Spatial analysis

Spatial analysis or spatial statistics includes any of the formal techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties.

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Standard of living

Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area, usually a country.

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Strategic geography

Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that affect the security and prosperity of nations.

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Synekism

Synekism is a concept in urban studies coined by Edward Soja.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector or service sector is the third of the three economic sectors of the three-sector theory.

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The Geographical Pivot of History

The geographical pivot of history (also known as the heartland theory or simply the pivot of history) is a geostrategic theory that was first proposed by Halford John Mackinder in 1904.

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Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie is a peer-reviewed academic journal published five times annually by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society.

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Time geography

Time geography or time-space geography is an evolving transdisciplinary perspective on spatial and temporal processes and events such as social interaction, ecological interaction, social and environmental change, and biographies of individuals.

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Tobler's first law of geography

The First Law of Geography, according to Waldo Tobler, is "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." This first law is the foundation of the fundamental concepts of spatial dependence and spatial autocorrelation and is utilized specifically for the inverse distance weighting method for spatial interpolation and to support the regionalized variable theory for kriging.

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Torsten Hägerstrand

Torsten Hägerstrand (October 11, 1916, Moheda – May 3, 2004, Lund) was a Swedish geographer.

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

The Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Transport geography

Transport geography, also transportation geography, is a branch of geography that investigates the movement and connections between people, goods and information on the Earth's surface.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Waikato

The University of Waikato (Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato), informally Waikato University, is a comprehensive university in Hamilton, New Zealand established in 1964, with a satellite campus located in Tauranga.

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Urban geography

Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes.

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Vautrin Lud Prize

The Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, known in English as the Vautrin Lud Prize, is the highest award in the field of geography.

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Veganism

Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.

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Waldo R. Tobler

Waldo Rudolph Tobler (November 16, 1930 – February 20, 2018) was an American-Swiss geographer and cartographer.

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Walter Christaller

Walter Christaller (April 21, 1893 – March 9, 1969), was a German geographer whose principal contribution to the discipline is Central Place Theory, first published in 1933.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949 (and also after his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist).

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William Bunge

William Wheeler Bunge Jr. (born 1928, La Crosse, Wisconsin; died October 31, 2013, Canada) was an American geographer active mainly as a quantitative geographer and spatial theorist.

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William Garrison (geographer)

William Louis Garrison was an American geographer, transportation analyst and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Xavier Hommaire de Hell

Ignace Xavier Morand Hommaire de Hell, often known as Xavier Hommaire de Hell, (24 November 1812 in Altkirch – 29 August 1848 in Isfahan) was a French geographer, engineer and traveller who carried out research in Turkey, southern Russia and Persia.

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Yi-Fu Tuan

Yi-Fu Tuan (Traditional Chinese: 段義孚, born 5 December 1930) is a Chinese-American geographer.

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1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak

The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in the Soho district of London, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_geography

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