B.A 4th semester Paper-4016 Environmental geography and disaster management ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY:MEANING AND NATURE What is environmental geography? The term environment has been derived from a French word Environmeans to surround.
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B.A 4th semester
Paper-4016
Environmental geography and disaster management<br>
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ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY:MEANING AND NATURE
What is environmental geography?
• The term environment has been derived from a French word “Environ”means to surround.
environment refers to anything that is immediately surrounding an object and exerting a direct influence on it.
Environmental geography is the study of systematic description of different components of environment and interactions of man with these components.<br>
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In 1989 Savindra Singh attempted to define environmental geography and determine its scope in his research paper entitled ‘environmental geography : conceptual frameworks’ (National Geographer, 1989)
He published the first comprehensive text and reference book entitled ‘environmental geography’ in 1991.
Savindra Singh defined environmental geography in 1989 as follows<br>
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“Thus broadly speaking, environmental geography may be defined as the study of spatial attributes of interrelationships between living organisms and natural environment in general nd between technologically advanced ‘economic man ’ and his natural environment in particular in temporal and spatial framework.”
In simple words environmental geography is the branch of geography that describes the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world.<br>
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Nature of environmental geography
The concept of environmental studies is stated as ‘environmental geography’ instead of ‘geography of environment’ as the term environmental geography lays more emphasis on men environment relationship.
On the other hand geography of environment focuses more on study of characteristics and spatial and temporal distribution of different components of environment.<br>
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It lays more emphasis on the application of geographical information to the solution of environmental problems.
Environmental geography may also serve as a bridge between physical and human branches of geography on one hand and it may associate geographers in general and environmental geographers in particular with other allied life and earth scientists on the other hand. Source:Environmental geography by Savindra Singh
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