GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2008
Lecture Outline

The Human Relationship with Nature

3 Conceptions of the Human--Environment Relationship (Glacken)

Environmental Determinism

• Examples of Environmental Determinism
• Environmental Determinism and Cultural/"Racial" Difference
• Ethnocentrism

An Alternative to Environmental Determinism

• The Earth As Transformed by Human Action
• The Danger of using Nature as an explanatory variable

What is nature?

• Two Definitions
• Where do we draw the line between nature and culture?

Technology?

• Nature vs. "Man" in the race to the South Pole
• Of Dinosaurs and Sheep
• Virtual Nature?
• 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd Nature

The Production of Nature.