Write the difference between economics geography and resources geography
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Economic geography is the study of the relationship between economic activity and location. Geography is sort of a universal subject — you can have a “geography” of pretty much anything — which is the study of place. One of the nice things about geography is that it can tie together diverse subjects, looking at, for example, the economic activity at a place and the influences of the weather on it (climatology) or the natural environment (biogeography) or the political landscape (political geography.)
There was a school of thought about a hundred years ago, called Environmental Determinism, which taught that human actions at a given location were determined by the environment. You grow oranges in Florida, not in North Dakota, for example, because the climate of Florida (humid subtropical, Köppen classification Cfa) is the native environment for oranges, while the climate of North Dakota (warm summer humid continental, Köppen classification Dfb) does not allow orange trees to grow.
Although that makes some sense, it was discredited and replaced with a theory called Possiblism, which says that human activity is determined by both the environment and social conditions at that place. In our oranges example, yes, the climate of North Dakota puts limitations on the growing of oranges in the state, but someone could put up a greenhouse and artificially keep the temperature and humidity at levels that would facilitate the growing of oranges.
No one does that, and the reason for it is that it’s cheaper to have oranges from Florida shipped to North Dakota than it is to have a bunch of greenhouses using electricity to duplicate the climate conditions of Florida. So the reason that we don’t grow oranges in North Dakota is an economic one, not an environmental one.
That’s what makes geography so interesting, to me — one can look at some sort of situation (why are there so many Norwegians in eastern North Dakota and so many Germans in western North Dakota?) and apply multiple disciplines to determine what the cause of that activity in that location is. As a geographer, I am comfortable in a wide variety of disciplines, from economics to history to physics to meteorology to cartography and political science, because they often come into play, in some measure, to geographical problems.
Economic and resource geography:
• Economic geography is basically a division of human geography that concerns with all matters of economic value, from incomes and resource extraction to production and exchange, to consumption and dumping.
• In geography, a resource is any physical substantial creating part of Earth that people need and value. Natural materials become resources when humans signify them.
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