GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline

Human Relationship With Nature

Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today: Review Greiner pp. 5-9
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review before lecture (write a short definition):  nature, culture, nature-culture dualism, environmental determinism, actor-network theory, possibilism, humans as modifiers of the earth, Earth as a dynamic, integrated system
I have the following question(s) about the textbook reading:

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

Alternatives to Environmental Determinism

• Possibilism
• The Earth As Transformed by Human Action
• Actor-Network Theory
• 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.

After Lecture

What was the main point of today's lecture?

Important concepts covered in this lecture (write a short definition):

One thing I did not fully understand today is:

What did I learn today that I did not know before?