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Original mapping by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography. Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...
Castree was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, UK and has a BA in Geography (first class honours) from the University of Oxford (1989), and an MA (1992) and PhD from the University of British Columbia (1999). He has worked at the universities of Liverpool and Wollongong, as well as Manchester and UTS (Sydney).
The dictionary of human geography. Blackwell, 2009. ... The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names. Clarendon Press, 1960. [15] Lewis, Samuel.
Johnston became co-editor of the two journals Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A that same year. In 1981, the first edition of The Dictionary of Human Geography, to which Johnston contributed hundreds of articles, [4] was published. It has maintained its status as the discipline's authoritative dictionary ever since. [5]
This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...
Kitchin graduated from Lancaster University in 1991 with a geography BSc.The following year, he completed an MSc in geographical information systems at the University of Leicester and in 1995 was awarded a PhD by the University of Wales, Swansea, [2] for his thesis "Issues of validity and integrity in cognitive mapping research: investigating configurational knowledge". [3]
It requires an understanding of the dynamics of physical geography, as well as the ways in which human societies conceptualize the environment (human geography).Thus, to a certain degree, it may be seen as a successor of Physische Anthropogeographie (English: "physical anthropogeography")—a term coined by University of Vienna geographer Albrecht Penck in 1924 [3] —and geographical cultural ...
[3] [24] Human geography largely focuses on the built environment and how humans create, view, manage, and influence space. [24] Physical geography examines the natural environment and how organisms, climate, soil, water, and landforms produce and interact. [25] The difference between these approaches led to the development of integrated ...