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Fondamenti di geografia - eng

Fundamentals of GEOGRAPHY

Gianfranco Spinelli - Carla Ferrario

Codice insegnamento E0072

SSD Insegnamento M-GGR/02

8 CFU - 64 ore

NOVARA

  • Language

Italian

  • Content in breaf

Themes of human and economic geography. A Brief Overview of Cartography.

  • Teaching materials (6 CFU)

The teaching material (slides end eventual additional material) provided in the web page of the course at the URL: http://moodle.eco.unipmn.it/

Dematteis G., Lanza C., Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana. Seconda edizione. UTET Università, 2014 (DIPSONIBILE IN BIBLIOTECA)

Bignante E., Celata F., Vanolo A., Geografie dello sviluppo. Una prospettiva critica e globale. UTET Università, 2014 (DIPSONIBILE IN BIBLIOTECA)

  • Education aims

The course aims to provide basic geographical knowledge, methodological and content-related, in preparation for the analysis and interpretation of spatial organization, as well as the conditions and effects of tourism development at different scale levels. In particular, it provides the essential principles of the systemic approach and the main theoretical and practical criteria to analyze and represent the Earth surface - and the regions in which it is articulated - as a product of human activity. The course also provides the basis for analyzing and understanding territorial organizations, at urban, regional and national scale, as well as the key interactions between the physical environment and social environment, allowing interpreting geographic differentiation of the relationship between man and nature as an expression of different social relations. Finally, provides the basic techniques of spatial analysis and cartographic representation.

  • Prerequisites

None

  • Teaching methods

The teaching will be conducted through lectures, held by the teacher or by experts, and through exercises and group discussions.

  • Other information

Further information is available on the web page of the course at the URL: https://eco.dir.unipmn.it/

  • Examination

Written examinations

  • Extended Program

The course is divided into two parts and in lessons of two hours, whose contents are: Definitions and contents of Geography .The Earth as a system. Tools for geographic analysis. Cartography and spatial representation. The Earth’s surface as a differentiated space: territorial values. Population, migration and culture. The city: definitions and functions. Virtual networks and urban organization of global space. Urban and rural areas. Infrastructures and services. Urban environment and landscape. The world-system and main theories of development. GDP and other social and economic indicators. The production systems: Fordism and post-Fordism. The new enterprise location strategies: internationalization and relocation. Globalization. Clusters and regional innovation systems. The economic and political integration between states. Economic network and global governance.