Question.
Define human geography
( Chapter 1, Class 12 NCERT Geography Fundamentals of Human Geography)
Answer.
Human geography is the branch of geography that studies the relationship between human beings and the Earth’s surface. It explains how humans interact with nature, use resources, adapt to environments, and shape the world around them.
Human geography studies where people live, how they live, and how they change the environment.
In this chapter, many definitions by famous geographers help us understand the concept clearly:
Definition 1:
Human geography is the synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and earth’s surface.
by Ratzel
Definition 2.
“Human geography is the study of the changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth.”
by
Ellen C. Semple
Definition 3:
“Conception resulting from a more synthetic knowledge of thephysical laws governing our earth and of the relations
between the living beings which inhabit it”.
by
Paul Vidal de la Blache
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