Fondamenti di geografia - ENG

FONDAMENTI DI GEOGRAFIA
Prof. Gianfranco Spinelli – Dott.ssa Carla Ferrario
Codice insegnamento E0072
SSD Insegnamento M-GGR/02
8 CFU - 64 ore
NOVARA

Educational 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.

Content of the course
The course is divided into two parts and in lessons of two hours, whose contents are listed below
    Definitions and contents of Geography
    The space Earth as a system
    Tools for geographic analysis
    The cartographic representation of the space
    The Earth as 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
    City: definitions and functions
    Infrastructures and services
    Urban Earth and landscape
    The world system and theories of development.
    GDP and some wealth and development indicators
    The production systems: Fordism and post-Fordism
    The new location strategies of enterprise: internationalization and relocation
    Globalization
    Cluster and innovation system
    The economic and political integration between states
    Economic network and global governance

Prerequisites
None

Course Texts
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 (F. DIPSONIBILE IN BIBLIOTECA)

A scelta uno dei seguenti articoli:
Guala C., Per una tipologia dei mega eventi, Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, serie XII, volume VII, 4, 2002
Ferrario C., I grandi eventi per la città di domani. Riflessioni in vista di Expo Mi lano 2015 “Nutrire il pianeta, energia per la vita”, Rivista Ambiente società Territorio, vol. 4 luglio/agosto, p. 15-19, ISSN: 1824-114X

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

Examination
Written test and/or exercise in mapping lab.

Requirements
None

Found further information in the web page of the course at the URL: https://eco.dir.unipmn.it/