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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 ...
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 ...
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In the context of hunger relief, people experiencing 'acute hunger' may also suffer from 'chronic hunger'. The word is used mainly to denote severity, not long-term duration. [7] [8] [5] Not all of the organizations in the hunger relief field use the FAO definition of hunger. Some use a broader definition that overlaps more fully with malnutrition.
Good health is essential to sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda. It focuses on broader economic and social inequalities , urbanization , climate crisis , and the continuing burden of HIV and other infectious diseases , while not forgetting emerging challenges such as non-communicable diseases . [ 24 ]
Human geography (or anthropogeography) is a branch of geography that focuses on studying patterns and processes that shape human society. [67] It encompasses the human, political, cultural , social, and economic aspects.
Cultural diversity – regions are a way to understand human diversity. [1] Uniform regions and formal regions share a similar definition, with formal regions being “a group of places that have similar conditions". [4] Even in formal regions, it is true that no region is completely homogeneous, as characteristics vary from place to place. [4]
An online Food Security Forum [4] featured Jerome C. Glenn, founder of The Millennium Project, which has a global network of nodes in seventy-one locations worldwide, and Natasha Udu-Gama, Director, Community Science and Advancement of the AGU Thriving Earth Exchange program [5] of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which has 300,000+ members and affiliates in 147 countries.