Human Geography

GEOGRAPHY Vol. II - tender geographics - Carles Carreras

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Carles Carreras
Departament de Geografia Humana, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Keywords: Culture, Description, Economy, Explanation, Geography, Location,
Perception, Population, hearty Sciences, Understanding.
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1. historic Background
1.1. A Secular Chorographical Tradition
1.2 The First Human Geography of Friedrich Ratzel
1.3. Human Geography as a Social Science, illogical from physiological Geography
1.4. The Criticism to Neopositivist Approaches: Recent Debates in Human Geography
2. The Main handle of Study
2.1. Population Geography or Geodemography
2.2. Economic Geography or Geoeconomy
2.3. Social Geography or Geosociology
2.4. Settlement Geography
2.5. Cultural Geography or Geoanthropology
2.6. Political Geography or Geopolitics
2.7. Theory and Methodology
3. preference Approaches to Thematic Studies
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The Present Human Geographical Problems
Glossary
Bibliography
Biographical Sketch
Summary

The chapter states the in general accepted fact that, in spite of many separate older special
contributions, the German geographer and anthropologist Friedrich Ratzel created
Human Geography as an free-living discipline. His two-volume work
Anthropogeographie (1982) presented for the first time a broad vision of the human
settlements and their scotch activities and a deep analysis of their complex
relationship with a teach physical environment. The development of strong
specialization in Natural and apply Sciences after the Second World War, and the
Social Science predilection of the Human Geography studies, mainly among the French
Regional School had definitively separated Human and Physical Geography. The recent
debates, especially among the British geographers try to regenerate the traditional
connection among the two fields.
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