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
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