1.5-1.6
Cards (14)
- sustainability - trying to use resources now in ways that allow their use in the future while minimizing negative impacts on the environment
- built environment - the physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the environment
- cultural landscape - anything built by humans
- cultural ecology - how humans adapt to the environment
- environmental determinism - the idea that behaviour is determined by the environment and not by the individual
- possibilism - acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays
- geographic scale/relative scale - the area of the world being studied
- Scales of Analysis
- Global
- World Regional
- National
- National Regional
- Local
- GlobalThe entire world
- World RegionalMultiple countries of the world
- NationalOne country
- National RegionalA portion of a country or a region(s) within a country
- LocalA province, state, city, county, or neighborhood
- aggregation - when geographers organize data into different scales such as by census tract, city, county or country