Lectures + some wider (the environment)

Question 1

75%

Answer 1

People who view climate change as a serious threat to their country: (Pew Research enter 2022) h/e only 19 countries included

Question 2

64%

Answer 2

Said climate change an emergency, 1.2m resondants across 50 countries on behalf of 56% Earths population (Peoples climate vote)

Question 3

Ellen Semple

Answer 3

Environmental determinism in the Phillipines, Korea, Japan, found environment primarily influenced human behavior

Question 3

What is environmental determinism?

Answer 3

Idea that environment primarily determines human behaviour, people like Ratzel who were influenced by Darwinism

Question 4

What is meant by Env Determinism not being a single idea?

Answer 4

How environmental determinism can differ, e.g degree of which it determines

Question 5

Resurgence in Environmental determinism

Answer 5

Marshall and Jared Diamond, Neo-environmental determinism

Question 6

What did Jared Diamond write?

Answer 6

Guns, Germs and Steel (1999) writes how some states grew better than others due to their geography.

Question 6

Alternative to environmental determinism

Answer 6

Environmental Possibilism, Vidal De Le Blache. Humans can adapt to and shape their environment rather than being determined by it (1926) Principles of Human Geography

Question 7

Example of Environmental possibilism

Answer 7

Humans living in Earthquake prone areas can’t stop them but can adapt by building landscapes more suited to them

Question 8

Geography as human environment relations + critises environmental determinism

Answer 8

Harden 2012

Question 9

Need to integrate social sciences and humanities in global change. Human geographers lead in ‘new science’

Answer 9

O’Brien 2011

Question 10

We are living in what has increasinglybeen referred to as the Anthropocene Era

Answer 10

(Crut-zen and Steffen, 2003; Dalby, 2007; Steffenet al., 2004)