HUMAN - CENTRIC GEOGRAPHY

Paper Code: 
GEO-144 A
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • Human geography is a wide-ranging discipline that draws together many of the strands important for understanding the world today.
  • It examines human societies and how they develop, their culture, economy and politics, all within the context of their environment.
12.00
Unit I: 
Perspectives in Human Geography:
  • Areal differentiation and Regional synthesis;
  • Dichotomy and dualism;
  • Environmentalism;
  • Quantitative revolution
  • Radical, Behavioural, Human and Welfare approaches;
  • Languages, religions and secularization;
  • Cultural regions of the world;
  • Human development index.
12.00
Unit II: 
Economic Geography
  • World economic development: measurement and problems;
  • World resources and their distribution;
  • Energy crisis; the limits to growth;
  • World agriculture: typology of agricultural regions;
  • agricultural inputs and productivity;
  • Food and nutrition problems;
  • Food security;
  • World industries: locational patterns and problems; patterns of world trade.
12.00
Unit III: 
Population Geography
  • Growth and distribution of world population;
  • demographic attributes;
  • Causes and consequences of migration;
  • concepts of over-under-and optimum population;
  • world population problems and policies,
  • Social wellbeing and quality of life;
  • Population as social capital.
  • Problems and remedies of urbanization; Sustainable development of cities
12.00
Unit IV: 
Regional Planning
  • Concept of a region;
  • Types of regions and methods of regionalization;
  • Growth centers and growth poles;
  • Regional imbalances;
  • regional development strategies;
  • environmental issues in regional planning;
  • Planning for sustainable development
12.00
Unit V: 
Models, Theories and Laws in Human Geography
  • Systems analysis in Human geography;
  • Malthusian  and demographic transition models;
  • Central Place theories of Christaller and Losch;
  • Von Thunen's model of agricultural location;
  • Weber's model of industrial location;
Essential Readings: 

·         Rubenstin,James: Contemporary Human Geography (Pearson Education, Delhi, 2015).

·         Leong ; Morgan,Gillian C.: Human and Economic Geography (Delhi ,1982 )

·         Hussain, M: Human Geography (Rawat Publications, 2003, New Delhi)

·         Singh,Vaishali: Human Geography                                                    (Alfa Publications, New Delhi ,2011)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

·         Sharma,Sandeep :Human Geography (Rajat Publications, Delhi, 2015)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

·         Borgohain,Bani :Human Rights : Social Justice and Political Challenges (Kanishka Publishers, Delhi, 2014)

·         Kumar,Avinash :Models Theories and Laws in Human Geography ( Anmol Publications, New Delhi, 2014).

References: 
  • Rubenstin,James: Contemporary Human Geography (Pearson Education, Delhi, 2015).
  • Leong ; Morgan,Gillian C.: Human and Economic Geography (Delhi ,1982 )
  • Hussain, M: Human Geography (Rawat Publications, 2003, New Delhi)
  • Singh,Vaishali: Human Geography                                                    (Alfa Publications, New Delhi ,2011)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  • Sharma,Sandeep :Human Geography (Rajat Publications, Delhi, 2015)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  • Borgohain,Bani :Human Rights : Social Justice and Political Challenges (Kanishka Publishers, Delhi, 2014)
  • Kumar,Avinash :Models Theories and Laws in Human Geography ( Anmol Publications, New Delhi, 2014).
Academic Year: 
2019-2020