Human geography

Human geography is the branch of geography 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.

Overview

Human geography is a social science that studies the world, its people, communities, and cultures with an emphasis on relations of and across space and place. It encompasses the human, political, cultural, social, and economic aspects.

Subfields

Human geography can be divided into many broad categories, such as:

• Cultural Geography: This field is related to the study of cultural products and norms and their variations across and relations to spaces and places.
• Development Geography: This field is related to the standard of living and quality of life of its human inhabitants.
• Economic Geography: This field studies the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.
• Health Geography: This field deals with the health of the population and the provision of health care services.
• Historical Geography: This field studies the historical processes that have shaped the spatial distribution of human activity.
• Political Geography: This field is concerned with the study of the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.

See also

• Geography
• Physical geography
• Geographic information system
• Cartography

External links

• Association of American Geographers
• Royal Geographical Society

Human geography Resources
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