This document provides an overview of key concepts from Chapter 1 of Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context. It discusses how geography matters in the increasingly interconnected world and how places and regions are complex and dynamic. It also summarizes geographic tools and methods like maps, GIS, spatial analysis and regional analysis that geographers use to study relationships between people and environments at various scales. The chapter emphasizes how geography provides a way to understand changes places undergo over time through the geographical imagination.
1. Chapter 1 Lecture
Human Geography: Places and
Regions in Global Context
Sixth Edition
Geography Matters
Wendy A. Mitteager
State University of New York, Oneonta