Edited vaishali singh (3 Ergebnisse)
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Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Origins of Agriculture 3 Seed 4 Livestock 5 Agronomy 6 Farming Bibliography IndexAgricultural Geography is a branch of geography that deals with areas of land cultivation and the effect of such cultivation on the physical landscape About 45 of the world?s population makes their living through ag…riculture Thousands of years ago human began to domesticate plants and animals for food Earlier to this era people relied on hunting and gathering to obtain food supplies The beginnings of agriculture did not just occur in one place but appeared almost simultaneously around the world possible through trail and error with different plants and animals or by long term experimentation Agriculture encompasses a wide variety of specialties and techniques including ways to expand the lands suitable for plant raising by digging water-channels and other forms of irrigation Cultivation of crops on arable land and the pastoral herding of livestock on rangeland remain at the foundation of agriculture In the past century there has been increasing concern to identify and quantify various forms of agriculture In the developed world the range usually extends between sustainable agriculture eg permaculture or organic agriculture and intensive farming eg industrial agriculture The agricultural revolution increased efficiency of production as well as distribution which allowed more people to move to the cities as the industrial revolution got under way Jacket 304 pp.
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Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Urban Sociology 3 Housing 4 Urban Planning 5 Human Geography Bibliography IndexUrban geography is a branch of human geography concerned with various aspecsts of cities Urban geography is the study of urban areas That is the study of areas which have a high concentration of buildings and infrastr…ucture These are areas where the majority of economic activities are in the secondary sector and tertiary sectors They often have a high population density Urban geography is that branch of science which deals the study of urban areas in terms of concentration infrastructure economy and environmental impacts An urban geographer?s main role is to emphasise location and space and study the spatial processes that create patterns observed in urban areas To do this they study the site evolution and growth and classification of villages towns and cities as well as their location and importance in relation to different regions and cities Economic political and social aspects within cities are also important in urban geography Urban geography forms the theoretical basis for a number of professions including urban planning site selection real estate development crime pattern analysis and logistical analysis Jacket 288 pp.
Verlag: Alfa Pub 2011
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Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Human migration 3 Land 4 Rural geography 5 Urban geography Bibliography IndexHuman geography is one of the major branches of geography Human geography is the study of he many cultural aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and places where they originate and then tr…avel as people continually move across various areas Human geography is both methodologically and theoretically diverse including feminist Marxist post-structural approaches among others and using both qualitative methods and quantitative methods Some of the main cultural phenomena studied in human geography include language religion different economic and governmental structures art music and other cultural aspects that explain how andor why people function as they do n the areas in which they live Cultural landscapes are also important because they link culture to the physical environments in which people live This is vital because it can either limit or nurture the development of various aspects of culture For instance people living in a rural area are often more culturally tied to the natural environment around them than those living in a large metropolitan area Human geography combines economic and cultural geography to explore the relationships between humans and their natural environment and to track the broad social patterns that shape human societies 312 pp.
