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Human Environmental Interaction

Human Environmental Interaction . Focuses on understanding the processes and patterns associated with Humans and the Environment interacting upon each other. Human - Cultural Characteristics. Technological Level Organizational level Political ideology Religious ideology Popular culture

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Human Environmental Interaction

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  1. Human Environmental Interaction Focuses on understanding the processes and patterns associated with Humans and the Environment interacting upon each other.

  2. Human - Cultural Characteristics • Technological Level • Organizational level • Political ideology • Religious ideology • Popular culture • Folkways • Linguistic traditions • Food-ways • Clothing traditions • Personal hygiene • Others

  3. Environmental Characteristics • Elevation • Amount of sunshine • Temperature • Precipitation • Latitude: Seasons • Wind • Soils • Drainage & Drainage features (Rivers) • Slope • Vegetation • Rocks and Minerals • Other

  4. Questions • Will different religious groups interact with similar environments in the same way? • Will groups with different technological levels interact with the same environment in the same way? • What will happen when a human group enters a new environment? • What impacts might this new environment have upon the group’s culture? • What impacts might this group’s culture have upon the environment?

  5. The U.S.: Culture Impacting The Environment • Mechanistic vs. Organic • Mechanistic: Humans are over the Earth • A willingness to modify the Earth • Organic: Humans are part of the Earth • Less willing to modify the Earth • The United States: A mechanistic society • Bureau of Reclamation: Damming Rivers and Irrigating the Desert • Removal of forests for agriculture • Draining of swamps • Building levees • Creation of artificial environments

  6. U.S.: Environmental Impacts on Culture • The Eastern Woodsmen entered the Plains and tried to grow Humid Crops • Massive failures in the 1800 • The Mennonites farmers introduced hard winter wheat and the Eastern Woodsmen changed their crop patterns • Growing of Blue Grass in Hays • Blue grass takes large amounts of water • Shortage of water in the 1980’s forced the reduction of Bluegrass yards • Today Buffalo or Fescue the primary preference for grasses

  7. U.S. Questions • Will global warming change Americans’ habits about the uses of cars? • Will global warming change Americans’ habits about the size of their homes? • Will the end of abundant low cost energy change the spatial aspects of cities?

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