How I Understand Human and Economic Geography

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Given space, place and environment combined the end result one gets is human activities and the relationship between them all is what human geography focuses on. The human activities that are much more concerned in human geography are; settlements, population, culture, economic, development, political just to mention a few which consequently form or are the sub-fields of human geography. Despite being a sub-field in human geography economic geography is also a separate major field in geography as a whole but very much related to human geography since it is concerned with the spatial distribution of the transportation and consumption of resources, goods, and services, and their effects on the landscape. Where there is a settlement of human beings it means resources (natural and man-made) are being consumed and as time goes such resources are needed to be maintained in order to support them hence economic geography is therefore in existence in order to help or guide people in managing these resources. ‘Economic geography a sub-field of human geography concerned with describing and explaining the varied places and spaces where economic activities are carried out and circulate’ (The Dictionary of human Geography fifth edition). Economic geography focuses on Economies of agglomeration (also known as "linkages"), Transportation, International trade, economic development, real estate. This essay discuses both the concepts of Human and economic geography and how they are related to each other. Population geography is a branch of human geography that is focused on the scientific study of people, their spatial distributions and density. To study these factors, population geographers examine the increase and decrease in population, peoples' movements over time, general settlement patterns and other subjects such as occupation and how people form the geographic character of a
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