Before beginning this section, kindly review Human Geography for GS to build a strong foundation. You can access it here.
CHAPTER 1: Foundation and Evolution of Human Geography
🧑🤝🧑Evolution of Geographical Thought
🧑🤝🧑Greek Thinkers
🧑🤝🧑Roman Thinkers
🧑🤝🧑Arab Geographers
🧑🤝🧑Bernhardus Varenius
🧑🤝🧑Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
🧑🤝🧑Alexander Humboldt and Carl Ritter
🧑🤝🧑Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
🧑🤝🧑Areal Differentiation
🧑🤝🧑Regional Synthesis
CHAPTER 2: Philosophical and Methodical Approaches
🧑🤝🧑Dualism and Dichotomy
🧑🤝🧑General vs Regional Geography
🧑🤝🧑Physical Geography vs Human Geography
🧑🤝🧑Determinism
🧑🤝🧑Environmentalism
🧑🤝🧑Environmental Determinism
🧑🤝🧑Possibilism
🧑🤝🧑Neo-Determinism
🧑🤝🧑Probabilism
🧑🤝🧑Cultural (or Social) Determinism
🧑🤝🧑Quantitative Revolution
🧑🤝🧑Quantitative Techniques
🧑🤝🧑Paradigms in Geography
🧑🤝🧑Exceptionalism in Geography
🧑🤝🧑Spatial Analysis
🧑🤝🧑Locational Analysis
🧑🤝🧑Positivism
🧑🤝🧑Idealism and Realism
🧑🤝🧑Pragmatism
CHAPTER 3: Contemporary Approaches in Human Geography
🧑🤝🧑Radical Approach
🧑🤝🧑Behavioural Approach
🧑🤝🧑Time Geography
🧑🤝🧑Humanistic Approach
🧑🤝🧑Phenomenology
🧑🤝🧑Existentialism
🧑🤝🧑Welfare Approach
CHAPTER 4: Cultural Aspects in Human Geography
🧑🤝🧑Spatial Distribution of Languages and Linguistic Diversity
🧑🤝🧑Diffusion and Geography of Major Religions
🧑🤝🧑Secularisation: Regional and Global Trends
🧑🤝🧑Cultural Realms and Their Geographical Identification
🧑🤝🧑Cultural Landscapes and Homogeneity vs Diversity
CHAPTER 5: Agricultural Regions
🧑🤝🧑Understanding Economic Geography
🧑🤝🧑Introduction to Agricultural Regions
🧑🤝🧑Nomadic Herding
🧑🤝🧑Livestock Ranching
🧑🤝🧑Shifting Cultivation
🧑🤝🧑Rudimentary Sedentary Tillage
🧑🤝🧑Intensive Subsistence Tillage (with Paddy Dominance)
🧑🤝🧑Intensive Subsistence Tillage (without Paddy Dominance)
🧑🤝🧑Commercial Plantation Agriculture
🧑🤝🧑Mediterranean Agriculture
🧑🤝🧑Commercial Grain Farming
🧑🤝🧑Commercial Livestock and Crop Farming (Mixed Farming)
🧑🤝🧑Subsistence Crop and Livestock Farming
🧑🤝🧑Commercial Dairy Farming
🧑🤝🧑Specialized Horticulture
🧑🤝🧑Whittlesey’s 13 Agricultural Systems
CHAPTER 6: Population Theories
🧑🤝🧑Introduction to Population Theories
🧑🤝🧑Malthusian Theory of Population
🧑🤝🧑Marxian Theory of Population
🧑🤝🧑Biological Theories
🧑🤝🧑Cultural Theories
🧑🤝🧑Economic Theories of Fertility
🧑🤝🧑Migration Theories
🧑🤝🧑Introduction to Optimum Population Theory
🧑🤝🧑Core Idea of OPT
🧑🤝🧑Merits and Demerits of OPT
🧑🤝🧑Superiority of OPT over Malthusian
🧑🤝🧑Introduction to Social Capital
🧑🤝🧑Forms Taken by Social Capital
🧑🤝🧑Benefits and Harms of Social Capital
CHAPTER 7: Theories and Concepts of Urban Settlements
🧑🤝🧑Harold Maclean Lewis Model
🧑🤝🧑Lewis Mumford’s Theory of Urban Growth
🧑🤝🧑Griffith Taylor’s Theory of Urban Evolution
🧑🤝🧑Concentric Zone Theory – E.W. Burgess (1923)
🧑🤝🧑Axial Development Theory
🧑🤝🧑Bid Rent Theory
🧑🤝🧑Sector Model of Urban Land Use – Homer Hoyt (1939)
🧑🤝🧑Mann’s Model of Urban Structure – A Hybrid Approach (1965)
🧑🤝🧑Multiple Nuclei Theory
🧑🤝🧑Vance’s Urban Realms Model
🧑🤝🧑Primate City
🧑🤝🧑Rank Size Rule
🧑🤝🧑Sphere of Urban Influence
🧑🤝🧑Rural-Urban Fringe
🧑🤝🧑Urban Sprawl
🧑🤝🧑Cellular Growth
🧑🤝🧑Suburbs & Suburban Growth
🧑🤝🧑Satellite Towns
🧑🤝🧑Central Business District
🧑🤝🧑Functional Classification of Cities
🧑🤝🧑Classification of Towns in India as per Census 2011
🧑🤝🧑Functional Classification Models of Cities
🧑🤝🧑Morphology of Indian Cities
CHAPTER 8: Concepts and Theories in Regional Planning
🧑🤝🧑Introduction to Regional Concept
🧑🤝🧑Paradigm Shift in the Concept of a Region
🧑🤝🧑Methods of Regionalisation
🧑🤝🧑Methods of Delineation of Regions
🧑🤝🧑Concept of Growth Center and Growth Poles
🧑🤝🧑Evaluation of Growth Pole Theory
🧑🤝🧑Core-Periphery Model
🧑🤝🧑Cumulative Causation Theory – By Gunnar Myrdal
🧑🤝🧑Prof. Hirschman’s View – Growth Poles & Uneven Development
🧑🤝🧑Regional Imbalances in India
CHAPTER 9: World Trade Patterns
🧑🤝🧑International Trade
🧑🤝🧑Evolution of International Trade
🧑🤝🧑Basis of International Trade
🧑🤝🧑Important Aspects of International Trade
🧑🤝🧑Case for Free Trade: Why Open Up Economies?
🧑🤝🧑Gateways of International Trade: Ports & Airports
🧑🤝🧑Major Ports of India
🧑🤝🧑India’s International Trade: A Dynamic Landscape
🧑🤝🧑Theories of International Trade
CHAPTER 10: MODELS, LAWS AND THEORIES
🧑🤝🧑Introduction to System Analysis of Geography
🧑🤝🧑General System Theory
🧑🤝🧑Structure of a System
🧑🤝🧑Geographical System
🧑🤝🧑System Approach to Landform Analysis
🧑🤝🧑Introduction to Central Place Theory
🧑🤝🧑Core Concepts of Central Place Theory
🧑🤝🧑The k-Principle in Central Place Theory
🧑🤝🧑August Lösch’s Locational Models
🧑🤝🧑Ricardo’s Theory of Rent: Explained
🧑🤝🧑Von Thünen’s Model of Agricultural Land Use (1826)
🧑🤝🧑Weber’s Industrial Location Model
🧑🤝🧑Lösch’s Theory of Economy and Location
🧑🤝🧑Fetter’s Law of Industrial Location – (1924)
🧑🤝🧑Renner’s Theory of Industrial Location (1960)
🧑🤝🧑Rawstron’s Theory of Industrial Location
🧑🤝🧑Rostov’s Model of Stages of Growth
🧑🤝🧑Mackinder’s Heartland Theory
🧑🤝🧑Modified Concept of Midland Basin (1943)
🧑🤝🧑Spykman’s Rimland Theory (1944)
🧑🤝🧑Boundaries and Frontiers