anthropogeography
- noun
- /ˌænθrəpoʊdʒiˈɡɒɡrəfi/
- Specialized
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antropogeografía
- The research in anthropogeography examines how urban development affects local ecosystems.
Examples
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Sauer had heard Semple's anthropogeography lectures while he was a graduate student at Chicago, at a time when she was working on Influences.
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To be sure, it is possible that Sauer missed Shaler's Kentucky reports while omnivorously reading others and that Semple did not mention Marsh in her anthropogeography course at the time Sauer took it; and in a book like Influences, which cites about a thousand authors, missing one would be easy.
Academic text (2012) -
Although the course was titled not "Anthropogeography" but "General Geography," the description of it is anthropogeographical.
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Students in the anthropogeography class learned about the impact of agriculture on the landscape.
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By studying anthropogeography, scientists can understand how human migration patterns alter geographic regions.
Synonyms
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The study of Earth's land, climate, plants, and how people live there
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The study of the Earth's surface and how people live with land and climate
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The study of how people and the places where they live affect each other
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Anthropogeography comes from Greek parts anthropo- meaning 'human' and geo- plus -graphy meaning 'earth' and 'writing', the same parts you see in anthropology and geography. So, anthropogeography is the study of how people and the land change each other.