Editing Human geography (section)

==Fields==
The primary fields of study in human geography focus on the core fields of:

===Cultures===
[[Cultural geography]] is the study of cultural products and norms – their variation across spaces and places, as well as their relations. It focuses on describing and analyzing the ways language, religion, economy, government, and other cultural phenomena vary or remain constant from one place to another and on explaining how humans function spatially.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G. |title=The human mosaic: a thematic introduction to cultural geography |last2=Domosh |first2=Mona |last3=Rowntree |first3=Lester |publisher=HarperCollinsCollegePublishers |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-06-500731-2 |location=New York}}</ref>
[[File:Agriculture in Asia.jpg|thumb|Terraced rice agriculture in Asia]]
* Subfields include: [[Social geography]], [[Animal geographies]], [[Language geography]], [[Sexuality and space]], [[Children's geographies]], and [[Religion and geography]].

===Development===
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[[Development geography]] is the study of the Earth's geography with reference to the [[standard of living]] and the [[quality of life]] of its human inhabitants, study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities, across the Earth. The subject matter investigated is strongly influenced by the researcher's methodological approach.

===Economies===
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[[File:Shan Street Bazaar.JPG|thumb|Economic Geography: [[Shan people|Shan]] street bazaar, market in Myanmar]]
[[Economic geography]] examines relationships between human economic systems, states, and other factors, and the biophysical environment.
* Subfields include: [[Marketing geography]] and [[Transportation geography]]

===Emotion===
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===Food===
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===Health===
Medical or [[health geography]] is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of [[health]], [[disease]], and [[health care]]. Health geography deals with the spatial relations and patterns between people and the environment. This is a sub-discipline of human geography, researching how and why diseases are spread and contained.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dummer |first=Trevor J.B. |date=22 April 2008 |title=Health geography: supporting public health policy and planning |journal=CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal |volume=178 |issue=9 |pages=1177–1180 |doi=10.1503/cmaj.071783 |issn=0820-3946 |pmc=2292766 |pmid=18427094}}</ref>

===Histories===
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[[Historical geography]] is the study of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical, and "real" geographies of the past. Historical geography studies a wide variety of issues and topics. A common theme is the study of the geographies of the past and how a place or region changes through time. Many historical geographers study geographical patterns through time, including how people have interacted with their environment, and created the cultural landscape.

===Politics===
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[[Political geography]] is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.
Subfields include: [[Electoral geography]], [[Geopolitics]], [[Strategic geography]] and [[Military geography]].

===Population===
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[[Population geography]] is the study of ways in which spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations are related to their environment or location.

===Settlement===
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[[Settlement geography]], including [[urban geography]], is the study of [[urban area|urban]] and [[rural area]]s with specific regards to spatial, relational and theoretical aspects of settlement. That is the study of areas which have a concentration of [[building]]s and [[infrastructure]]. These are areas where the majority of [[economy|economic]] activities are in the [[secondary sector of the economy|secondary sector]] and [[tertiary sector of the economy|tertiary sectors]].

=== Urbanism ===
[[Urban geography]] is the study of cities, towns, and other areas of relatively dense settlement. Two main interests are site (how a settlement is positioned relative to the physical environment) and situation (how a settlement is positioned relative to other settlements). Another area of interest is the internal organization of urban areas with regard to different demographic groups and the layout of infrastructure. This subdiscipline also draws on ideas from other branches of Human Geography to see their involvement in the processes and patterns evident in an [[urban area]].<ref name="Palm">{{Cite journal |last=Palm |first=Risa |date=1982 |title=Urban geography: city structures |journal=Progress in Geography |language=en |volume=6 |pages=89–95 |doi=10.1177/030913258200600104|s2cid=157288359 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kaplan |first1=Dave H. |title=Urban Geography, 3rd. Edition |last2=Holloway |first2=Steven |last3=Wheeler |first3=James O. |publisher=Wiley |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-118-57385-3 |location=Hoboken, NJ}}</ref>
Subfields include: [[Economic geography]], [[Population geography]], and [[Settlement geography]]. These are clearly not the only subfields that could be used to assist in the study of [[Urban geography]], but they are some major players.<ref name="Palm" />