CONCEPTS IN WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

1. CONCEPTS IN WORLD
REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
NURUL SYAMISMANIZA BINTI RAZAK

2. NATURAL RESOURCES
 Natural resources are resources that exist without
actions of humankind.
 This includes all valued characteristics such as
magnetic, gravitational, and electrical properties and
forces.
 Natural resources are materials and components
(something that can be used) that can be found within
the environment

3.  There are various methods of categorizing natural resources, these include source of origin,
stage of development, and by their renewability.
 On the basis of origin, natural resources may be divided into two types:
 Biotic — Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere (living and organic material), such
as forests and animals, and the materials that can be obtained from them. Fossil fuels such
as coal and petroleum are also included in this category because they are formed from
decayed organic matter
 Abiotic – Abiotic resources are those that come from non-living, non-organic material.
Examples of abiotic resources include land, fresh water, air and heavy metals including ores
such as gold, iron, copper, silver, etc.

4. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Natural environment means all living and non-living things that are natural. The universe is
natural, but often the term "natural environment" only means nature on Earth.
Two aspects are usually included:
- Ecological units which are natural systems without much human interference. These
include all vegetation, microorganisms, soil, rocks, atmosphere, and natural events.
- Universal natural resources and physical phenomena which lack clear-cut boundaries.
These include climate, air, water, energy, radiation, electric charge, and magnetism.

5. HUMAN GEOGRAPHIC
 Human geography is the branch of social sciences that deals with the study of people and their
communities, cultures, economies and interactions with the environment by studying their
relations with and across space and place.
 Human geography attends to human patterns of social interaction, as well as spatial level
interdependencies, and how they influence or affect the earth's environment.
 As an intellectual discipline, geography is divided into the sub-fields of physical geography and
human geography, the latter concentrating upon the study of human activities, by the
application of qualitative and quantitative research methods.

6. The primary fields of study in human
geography focus around the core fields of:
Culture
- Cultural geography is the study of cultural products and norms - their variation across
spaces and places, as well as their relations.
Development
- Development geography is the study of the Earth's geography with reference to the
standard of living and the quality of life of its human inhabitants, study of the location,
distribution and spatial organization of economic activities, across the Earth.
Economic
- Economic geography examines relationships between human economic
systems, states, and other factors, and the biophysical environment.
Health
- Health geography is the application of geographical information,
perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care.

7. POLITIC GEOGRAPHIC
 Political geography is a branch of human geography (the branch of geography concerned
with understanding the world's culture and how it relates to geographic space) that studies
the spatial distribution of political processes and how these processes are impacted by ones
geographic location.
 -Fields within politic geographic
 Some of the fields within today's political geography include but are not limited to the
mapping and study of elections and their results, the relationship between the government at
the federal, state and local level and its people, the marking of political boundaries, and the
relationships between nations involved in international supranational political groupings such
as the European Union.

8. NATURAL HAZARDS
A natural hazard is a natural phenomenon that might have a negative effect on people or the
environment.
Natural hazard events can be grouped into two broad categories.
Geophysical hazards encompass geological and meteorological phenomena such as earthquakes,
volcanic eruption, wildfire, cyclonic storms, flood, drought, and coastal erosion.
Biological hazards can refer to a diverse array of disease and infestation.