Human Geography

In the 50,000 years since humans successfully settled the world's habitable continents, a long story emerges of environmental stimuli and human response. Innovation, migration, settlement, development of material culture are likely responses, but result in landscape modification. The modern human world is the culmination of these stimuli-response iterations.

Human Geography

The interdependence of humanity and their environment.

Earth processes create regions of climate, landforms, soils, vegetation, and other resources. Variations in human population distributions coincide with all possible permutations of physical environmental factors. These permutations are not randomly distributed. A property of geographical distributions is that similarity amongst features is directly related to their proximity.

Thus human population distribution is not random. It is the result of human exploration and expansion to lands suitable for supporting a population. Conversely stated, it is the slow culmination of individual and group decisions to choose habitats suitable for survival, and secondarily, for comfort.

What all humans do
- Eat
- Drink
- Sleep
- Reproduce
- Defecate
- Communicate
- Think
- Innovate
What all Humans Need
- Food
  - Hunter-Gatherer
  - Agriculture
    - Subsistence
    - Trade
    - Agribusiness
- Water
- Shelter
- Fuel
- Clothes
- Other Humans
How Human Needs Are Expressed
- Materials in Environment

Humans coincide with the distribution of physical factors

Climate
Vegetation
Landforms
Soils
Resources

Current and Historical Population Distributions

Ecumene
Combination of the physical factors and human innovation dictate how much population a piece of land can support
Population Density
Arable
Environmental Determinism
Environmental Possiblism
- Innovation

Culture

Material Culture
Religion
Ethnicity
Language
The Effect of Isolation

Agriculture

Urban Geography

Globalization

History of Rural Geography

Human Geography

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