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    The document discusses topics studied by geographers including spatial patterns across Earth, population density, energy use, human impacts on the environment, landscape change over time, globalization, and cultural landscapes. It provides examples of these concepts in locations such as Sierra Leone, Spain, Nicaragua, Colombia, Bolivia, Nigeria, and cities in the United States. Maps and photographs show changes in the Santa Cruz area of Bolivia between 1975, 1986, and 2003 that were likely due to population growth, new markets, or investments.

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    The document discusses topics studied by geographers including spatial patterns across Earth, population density, energy use, human impacts on the environment, landscape change over time, globalization, and cultural landscapes. It provides examples of these concepts in locations such as Sierra Leone, Spain, Nicaragua, Colombia, Bolivia, Nigeria, and cities in the United States. Maps and photographs show changes in the Santa Cruz area of Bolivia between 1975, 1986, and 2003 that were likely due to population growth, new markets, or investments.

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    World Regional Geography

    1980s, Sierra Leone, Peace Corps

    Geographers study spatial patterns across the earth and seek to explain them. What sorts of social, historical, and environmental conditions account for these patterns? What would appear to be the single biggest factor in determining settlement patterns based on this map?

    2000s Spain, research 1990s, doctoral student, Nicaragua

    2000s, Colombia, Fulbright Scholar

    What does this map tell us that the previous map did not? The Earth at night, composite satellite image.

    Geographers also study the causes and consequences of changing spatial phenomenon.

    That population density and energy use (development) are not always correlated.

    Another perennial theme of geography is human impacts on the environment.

    Photograph from Space:

    Santa Cruz area, Eastern Bolivia, 1986.

    Santa Cruz area, Eastern Bolivia, 1975.

    What accounts for the changes in 11 years?

    Are these slashand-burn farmers moving into the rainforest? What helps us answer this question?

    What explains landscape change?


    Local forces: population growth? policy? International forces: new markets or investments?

    Santa Cruz area, Eastern Bolivia, 2003.

    Geographers also study the interconnection of people, places and environmentsin a word GLOBALIZATION.

    Mennonite farmers, Manitoba, eastern Bolivia. Where did they come from?

    Nigeria is the 5th largest supplier of oil to the U.S. 40%, or 1 m/b/d of Nigerian crude, goes to U.S.

    Ogoniland, Niger Delta, Nigeria: rich in oil yet one of the poorest places in the world.

    Geographers also analyze and explain (i.e., read) cultural landscapes. What are we looking at here?

    Places are connected, and changes in one can produce changes in the other.

    Think more geographically!!


    Imagine that the whole world (7b people!) lived with the same density of a real city. How much area would they take up? If we all lived like they do in San Francisco (spacewise), the world would take up just under 398k square miles, or rather, only four states. Same density as New York? We'd all fit in Texas.

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