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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 ...
James M. Rubenstein (born 1949) is an American geographer and Professor of Geography at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, known for his work on human geography [1] and specifically on the US automotive industry.
When the National Geography Standards were released in 1994, people compared them to the five themes, saying that the themes had a simplicity that the new standards were lacking. [4] In 1992, a National Assessment of Educational Progress consensus group said that the five themes are useful for teaching, but that for assessment, geography should ...
Encyclopedia of geography. Sage Publications, 2010. ISBN 9781412956970. [5] Warf, Barney (16 May 2006). Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-8858-8. Weatherhill, Craig; Everson, Michael (2009). A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Evertype. ISBN 978-1-904808-22-0. The World Book Encyclopedia of People and ...
Historical geography is the study of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical, and "real" geographies of the past. Historical geography studies a wide variety of issues and topics. A common theme is the study of the geographies of the past and how a place or region changes through time.
Human geography – one of the two main subfields of geography is the study of human use and understanding of the world and the processes that have affected it. Human geography broadly differs from physical geography in that it focuses on the built environment and how space is created, viewed, and managed by humans, as well as the influence humans have on the space they occupy.
The UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems subdivides geography into three major fields of study, which are then further subdivided. [6] [7] These are: Human geography: including urban geography, cultural geography, economic geography, political geography, historical geography, marketing geography, health geography, and social geography. [9]
The four traditions of geography have been widely used to teach geography in the classroom as a compromise between a single definition and memorization of many distinct sub-themes. [2] [5] There are many competing methods to organize geography. [6] The original four traditions have had several proposed changes. [5] [6]