Human geography

Human geography

Geographical events related to human actions.

Contributors in Human geography

Human geography

The central line of a geographical fold structure, such as an anticline or syncline. In an anticline, the axis marks the 'crest' of the fold, from which the strata dip away either side; in a syncline ...

azonal soil

Geography; Human geography

A soil that has undergone limited development and is characterized by an absence of well-developed soil horizons. Azonal soils are not associated with particular climatic vegetation zones (ct zonal ...

backshore

Geography; Human geography

That part of a beach lying above the high-water mark and normally beyond the reach of wave action. Ct. foreshore backward linkage

backwash

Geography; Human geography

The return flow of water down a beach, after a breaking wave has sent swash up the beach. The backwash is most powerful with plunging breakers (destructive waves), when the steep waves crash down on ...

backwash effect

Geography; Human geography

A term used by Myrdal in his theory of cumulative causation to describe the spatial concentration of resources and wealth in the core or centre at the expense of the periphery.

anthropogeomorphology

Geography; Human geography

The study of the influence of human activities on the physical landscape and the processes that shape it; for example, the effects of agriculture, dam construction and deforestation on processes of ...

Recentralisation

Geography; Human geography

In 330, Constantine moved the seat of the Empire to Constantinople, which he founded as a second Rome on the site of Byzantium, a city strategically located on the trade routes between Europe and ...