- Docente: Laura Federzoni
- Credits: 12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0958)
Course contents
1) Theories and methods of Geography; Geography and other sciences; evolution of Human Geography. Geography and territorial development: nature and human society; the men's spread over the Earth; migrations; demographic trends in the world. The settlement: rural settlement and agricolture; urban settlement; towns and regions; industrial location; environmental policies. 2) Cartography: evolution from the Ancient Age to the present days; foundations of map-making; topographic cartography; thematic cartography. 3) Geography of landscape: environment and landscape in geographic tradition; meanings of "environment" and "landscape"; natural and human environment; sustaineble development; parks and environmental protection; landscape representation and analysis; landscape planning in Italy and in Europe after the European Landscape Convention.
Readings/Bibliography
Office hours
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