Environmental geography concerns the interactions between humans and their physical surroundings. The word environment is derived from the french word environ which means surrounding. Geography 125 is not simply a naturalscience course. Environmental geography is an aspect of geography that delves into the relationship, including the social, economic and spatial interconnections, between people and their environments. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. The word environment means surroundings, in which organisms live. Geography definition is a science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earths surface. One of the fundamental principles of this course is that environmental dynamics are inseparable from social, cultural, political, and economic processes and relations. Another important school of thought defined geography as the study of manenvironment relationships. Environmental geography research people variations in the ways that people inhabit and use environments in places, and the processes natural and social that operate at different scales to alter those environments and the lives of people relying on them, are a strong focus. It refers to both abiotic physical or nonliving and biotic living environment. Our surrounding includes biotic factors like human beings, plants, animals, microbes, etc and abiotic factors such as light, air, water, soil, etc.
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