![]() ![]() ![]() Push and pull factors, and migration in relation to employment and quality of life.Types of migration: transnational, internal, chain, step, seasonal agriculture (e.g., transhumance), and rural to urban.Population and natural hazards: impacts on policy, economy, and society.Environmental impacts of population change on water use, food supplies, biodiversity, the atmosphere, and climate.Effects of national population policies: promoting population growth in some countries or reducing fertility rates in others.Regional variations of demographic transition. ![]() ![]() Theories of population growth and decline, including the Demographic Transition Model.Historical trends and projections for the future.Population growth and decline over time and space.Patterns of fertility, mortality, and health.Composition: age, sex, income, education, and ethnicity.Implications of various densities and distributions.Human Geography in Action: Ch 1 True Maps/False Maps.A New Look at the Four Traditions of Geography.Defining Geography: What is Where, Why There, and Why Care?.Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography.Sources of geographical information and ideas: the field, census data, online data, aerial photography, and satellite imagery.Use of geospatial technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS), and online maps.How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places.How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process.How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes.How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places.How to use and think about maps and geospatial data.Major geographical concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern, nature and society, regionalization, globalization, and gender issues.Unit I Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives. ![]()
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