This document provides an overview of key concepts in regional geography. It discusses natural environments, including climate change, weather, natural resources and hazards. It also examines human geographies such as languages and religions. Additionally, it outlines political geographies and different forms of government. Finally, it analyzes economic geographies and the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors of the global economy.

1. REGIONAL ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
DPP3023

2. INTRODUCTION
 Geography is the study of the physical features
pf the earth and its atmosphere including
landscape development,weather and climate,and
geologic concepts as wells as the influence of
human ,andactivity including
cultural,economic,and political activity on those
physical features.

3. Elements
of
Regional
Geography
Natural
environment
Human
geographies
Political
geographies
Economic
geographies

4.  Natural environment
Definition
The set of living and non-living things
on earth occuring naturally,without
the influenced by humans.
Examples:
Global climate change
Weather
Natural hazard
Natural resources

5.  Global climate change
Climate change refers to the rise in
average surface temperatures on
earth.also know as global warming.
caused by human activities such as:
Burning of fossil fuels
deforestation

6. Weather
 Weather is the condition of
the atmosphere at a
particular place over a short
period of time
Examples:
 Sunny
 Rain
 cloudy

7. Natural resources
Natural resources are resources that exist
naturally without actions of humankind.
All natural resources fall under two main
categories
Renewable
(water,animals and plants)
Non-renewable resources
(oil and minerals)

8. Natural hazard
A naturally occur disaster that will
have a negative effect on humans.
Examples:
 Earthquakes,volcanic,eruptions,
 tsunami,landslides and many more

9. Human geographies
 A branch of geography dealing with how human
activity affects or is influenced by the earth’s
surface.
 This study includes:
 Languages
 religions

10.  Language
 Language is a human system of communication
that uses arbitrary signals such as voice
sounds,gestures and written symbols.
 Five most spoken languages in the world:
 Mandarin chinese
 English
 Spanish
 Hindi
 arabic

11.  Religion
 Religion is a particular system of faith,worship and
practices that define the relations between human
being and sacred or divinity(personal God or Gods)
 Top three religions:
 Christianity
 Islam
 hinduism

12. Political geography
 Political geography is a branch of geography that deals
with human goverments,the boundaries and
subdivisions of political units as nations or states,and
the situations of cities.
 The five main forms of power are:
 Monarchy
 Democracy
 Authoritarianism
 totalitarianism

13.  Monarchy is a form of government in which a single
family rules from generation to generation.Ex:UK
 Democracy is defined as a form of government in which
power belongs to the people.EX:US
 Oligarchy is a form of government in which all power
resides with a few people or in a dominant group
within the society.EX:SOVIET UNION
 Authoritaanism is a form government in which
people have no participation.EX:CUBA
 Totalitarianism is a form of government in which one
person or political party exercises absolute
control.EX:NORTH KOREA

14.  ECONOMICS GEOGRAPHIES
The Study of the Location , distribution and
spatial organization of economic activities
across the world
TYPES OF WOLRD ECONOMIC SECTOR
 Primarily sector
 Secondary sector
 Teritory sector
 Quaternary sector

15. PRIMARY SECTOR
The extraction of raw material from the earth
The example : farmor , coal , minars , hunters
SECONDARY SECTOR
The transformation of raw material into goods
The example : factory workers
TERITORY SECTOR
The supplying of service to consumer / business
The example : restaurant , pilot
QUATERNARY SECTOR
Intelectual activities such as scientic research , education
and information technology
The example : researchers , librarian

16. LECTURER NAME :
MOHD NORULHISYAM BIN HASSAN
NAME :
MUHAMMAD NAJMI AIMAN BIN
MURTADZA