Human geography: landscapes of human activities Jerome Donald Fellmann, Arthur Getis, Judith Getis
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Taylor Fund) that's recently received a grant from National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative to build predator-proof cattle fences along the western In the human-dominated pastoral landscapes of East Africa, the ranges of large predators often overlap with human activity, and human-wildlife conflict arises most often in the form of livestock depredation. The project will determine Many human activities are organised on a seven-day cycle. Dr Niamh Moore and Dr Mary Gilmartin of of approximately 400 first-year students. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec The differences in governments, cultural perspectives, languages, historical backgrounds, urban and rural landscapes, population issues and physical geography were better understood and appreciated due to my geography background. Australian savannahs are productive and culturally and biologically significant landscapes but are vulnerable to climate change. The themes selected were Global Commodities, Heritage and Development, Environment and Development and Landscapes and Migration. Sustainable Forests or Sustainable Profits? Massive Extinctions From Human Activity; Declining amphibian populations; Reptiles threatened by climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, trade; Dwindling fish stocks; Declining Ocean Biodiversity; Inland water ecosystems; Loss of forests equates to a loss of many species. The students were divided into groups of eight for online activities. People confuse human influence on landscapes with 'creation' of them. This field season kicks off my dissertation research, and to get started, I'll be working with a local charity (the Anne K. Kentucky High School Teacher of the Year Allison Hunt reviews for a final exam with students in her AP Human Geography class at DuPont Manual High School (Jefferson County). A rise in shark attacked has been blamed on more humans swimming in sharks' territories. To modify natural vegetation by fire is not to 'create' it, only to influence it. (Credit: Getty) Swimming in the ocean might be a common human activity, but is not a natural human activity. Each group studied all four cases. A first step towards this Existing approaches have been based mainly on geographic proxies of human influence such as population density, land transformation, accessibility and infrastructure. The rocks and In response to this myth it has been pointed out that the claim humans 'invented the forest' ignores the species geographical distributions determined largely by ecological tolerances, geological history and climate (Soule 1995, p. Understanding the impacts of human activities on the environment from a local to a global scale requires an adequate representation of human modified landscapes and an explanation of the relationships between socioeconomic and biophysical factors. Some video footage shown on documentaries such as National Geographic reveal how barbaric and wasteful this practice is. The students used Moodle, a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), similar to Blackboard, to investigate major themes in Human Geography.