1. What is Human Geography?
Chapter 1
A “Canopy Tour” in the Cloud Forest, Costa Rica: Human Geography looks at the spatial variation of human activities as well as the relationship between people and their environment.

2. Introducing Human Geography
What do Geographers do?
Definition: Human Geography
Major Subfields

3. What is Human Geography? (cont’d)
Nature and Culture
Dualism of Nature vs. Culture
Why is this dualism rejected by many?
Cultural Ecology
Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica: Cultural Ecologists view humans as part of nature, as is evident within the Costa Rican rainforest. (Photo by Jeff DeGrave)

4. What is Human Geography? (cont’d)
Cultural Ecology: Four Approaches
Environmental Determinism
Definition
2. Possibilism
How is it a Criticism of Environmental Determinism?
Actor-Network Theory

5. What is Human Geography? (cont’d)
Humans as Modifiers of the Earth
Natural vs. Cultural Landscape
Nature as a Social Construction
4. Earth as a Dynamic, Integrated System
Two Key Principles

6. What is Human Geography? (cont’d)
Cultural Landscapes and Regions
Types of Regions:
Formal
Functional
Perceptual

7. What is Human Geography? (cont’d)
Cultural Landscapes and Regions
Types of Regions:
Formal
Functional
Perceptual

8. What is Human Geography? (cont’d)
Cultural Landscapes and Regions
Types of Regions:
Formal
Functional
Perceptual

9. What is Human Geography? (cont’d)
Cultural Landscapes and Regions
Types of Regions:
Formal
Functional
Perceptual

10. What is Human Geography? (cont’d)
Cultural Landscapes and Regions (cont’d)
Culture: Definition and Attributes
Q: What is a “Cultural Region?”
Are Cultural Regions formal, functional, or perceptual?
Can you think of any examples?
(Insert link to Video Explorations: Teeth Chiseling)

11. Thinking Like a Human Geographer
Place
Site
Situation

12. Thinking Like a Human Geographer (cont’d)
Space
Absolute vs. Relative Space
Spatial Variation vs. Spatial Association
Distribution

13. Spatial Diffusion Relocation Contagious Hierarchical Stimulus
Thinking Like a Human Geographer (cont’d)
Spatial Diffusion
Relocation
Contagious
Hierarchical
Stimulus

14. Spatial Interaction and Globalization
Thinking Like a Human Geographer (cont’d)
Spatial Interaction and Globalization
Globalization
Spatial Interaction
Definition
Three Factors
Distance-Decay
Time-Space Convergence

15. Spatial Interaction and Globalizatio
Thinking Like a Human Geographer (cont’d)
Spatial Interaction and Globalizatio

16. Geographic Scale Large vs. Small Verbal Ration Fractional Graphic
Thinking Like a Human Geographer (cont’d)
Geographic Scale
Large vs. Small
Verbal
Ration
Fractional
Graphic

17. What a Geographer Sees: Cartographic Scale
Thinking Like a Human Geographer (cont’d)
What a Geographer Sees: Cartographic Scale
Q: If you were asked to make a map of a particular place, how would you know which scale to use?

18. Geographical Tools
Remote Sensing
Definition
Examples

19. Geographical Tools (cont’d)
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Definition
Ethical Concerns
Geoslavery
Q: Can you think of any examples of potential ethical issues related to GPS?

20. Geographical Tools (cont’d)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Definition
How it works
Criticisms

21. Geographical Tools (cont’d)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

22. Introducing Human Geography
Q: Have you ever used remote sensing geographical tools?
These tools have helped enable people all over the Earth to be “geographers.”
And now it’s your opportunity to be one!
(Insert image of Earth and link to set up Google Earth exercise)