Chapter 1 Human Geography-Nature and Scope
Class XII Geography
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Human Geography Defined as:
• “Human geography is the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth’s surface”. Ratzel
(Synthesis has been emphasised in the above definition.)
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Friedrich Ratzel German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum |
• “Human geography is the study of “the changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth.” Ellen C. Semple
(Dynamism in the relationship is the keyword in Semple’s definition.)
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| American geographer Ellen Churchill Semple |
• “Conception resulting from a more synthetic knowledge of the physical laws governing our earth and of the relations between the living beings which inhabit it”. Paul Vidal de la Blache
(Human geography offers a new conception of the interrelationships between earth and human beings.)
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| Paul Vidal de La Blache a French Geographer |
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