Spatial Techniques and Glocalization
Environmental Geography:
The study of the way humans interact with and change the natural environment.
vs. cultural ecology
Food resources and the Green Revolution
:
Increases in food production primarily from expansion of intensive, industrial agriculture into
more traditionally farmed areas.
Costs of Green Revolution:
Environmental:
-Fossil fuel use
-Habitat damage
-Water and air pollution
Social:
-Financial cost to farmers
-Unequal access to necessary resources
Spatial Techniques
:
The study of how space itself can be analyzed or presented
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Ex: Cartography, Geographic Information Systems
Maps:
Primary tool of the geographer
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Most effective tool for displaying spatial knowledge
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Also effective tool for analyzing spatial data
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Spatial distributions and patterns cannot usually be seen at eye-level
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Allow us to isolate phenomena
Cartography:
The art, science, ad technology of making maps
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Ramped up during voyages of discovery and in subsequent times of nationalism
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Ramped up again with introduction of software mapping programs –
Automated
Cartography
; SYMAP first widely used software mapping package, appeared in 1965
Geographic information Systems (GIS):
Computer data based management system that
facilitates the overlay analysis of two or more layers of geographic data.
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- Fall '07
- BAKSI
- Geography, Globalization, Geographic information system, free market forces
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