Themes Of Geography Bilij

Several times throughout the book Blij pointed out many traditions. Quite a few caught my eye some being in chapter one Blij describes geography as so much more than a social science. Geographers do several different varieties of research, from climate change in the polar ice caps and plants and animals to the movement of a disease. Blij also reminds us that geographers do much more than study climate and plants, geographers also study human activities, like city layout along with boundary making, some geographers even study hobbies or food distribution even wine growing. Blij said on page twenty-four “To me, that’s the best part of geography: there’s almost nothing in this wide, wonderful world of ours that can’t be studied geographically.”
On page twenty-four and page twenty-five the second tradition of geography is addressed. The interactions between humans and their environments are very complex. Some things geographers wonder are why people build homes of the side of active volcanoes and why buy a thousand dollar home in California when it’s possible for an earthquake to knock it down? Things such as those are some of the many complicated relationships between humans and the environment. Other such things are the spread of disease. Disease is greatly impacted climate and human greatly contribute to the climate conditions, along with vegetation and other such things. If a land is bare and not inhabituated there will be more vegetation which may mean more or less disease. Humans can affect climate by pollution and other such harming things which can affect disease.

When I was reading this book I think the author wanted us to understand that geography is much more important than we would have ever thought. Before reading this book I never knew that geography had so many different variations. When I would hear the word geography I would just think about landscape and maps. I never thought that geography involved tracking of disease or climate change or even
On page four hundred and sixty beginning of chapter eleven it talks about Africa in a globalized world. Africa is “dead last” for the attention of America. People say the “real” Africa is south of the Sahara. Any time Africa becomes more globalized it isn’t because a new Hollister is opening or a new Starbucks is added. It’s because of natural disasters, terrorist attacks, diseases and wars. It is very rare for America to shine light on Africa because of positive developments. For example in November 1993 to June 1998 when the horrendous dictator Abacha was ruling Nigeria, Africa had America’s attention. It was regular to hear about the “big bad wolf” dictator of Nigeria in the papers. Another example was in May 1999 to May 2007 when president Obasanjo was elected. Obasanjo was a very excellent leader and very fair, the equality of religion had gain far less attention from America. It was rare to hear of Obasanjo and his accomplishments but it was well known for Abacha and his murders. Another example was in recent years Africa had Americas light once again because of the Ebola outbreaks that originated in Africa and had vast spreading that reached our very own United States, causing the death pole to rise increasingly around the