(1) Explain the meaning of human geography and discuss its fields of study.
(2) Give an outline of the development of human geography.
Answers
Explanation:
(1) Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that is associated and deals with humans and their relationships with communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across locations.
(2)Human geography broadly differs from physical geography in that it focuses on the built environment and how the space is created, viewed, used and managed by the humans as well as the influence humans on the space they occupy. The Fields of human geography includes several aspects of human life support systems. It includes culture, economy, language, population, politics, religion, transport, health, marketing, tourism and urbanization related issues. In this episode, the following aspects of Human geography are highlighted: 1. Human Evolution & population 2. Mosaic of Human activities in space 3. Patterns of human development 4. Human settlements and urbanization 5. Impact of humans on the environment.
