humanities - geography

What does SPICESS stand for?

Space, place, interconnection, change, environment, sustainability, scale

Space definition and example?

The effects of location and how it is organised and managed helps us to understand why the world is the way it is. eg. a relative or specific location

Place definition and example?

To understand our world, we need to understand how places influence our lives and how we change them

e.g. natural or modified places

Interconnection definition and example?

People and things are connected to others in their own and other places.

e.g. economic development

Change definition and example?

Change is about using time to better understand a place, an environment, spatial pattern or geographical problem.

e.g. long-term or short term

Environment definition and example?

People live and depend on the environment - it has an important influence on people’s lives

e.g. positive and negative human effects

Sustainability definition and example?

The capacity of the environment to support people’s lives and the lives of other living creatures

e.g. sustainable management, technology

Scale definition and example?

tool for examining issues from different perspectives, including personal, local, regional, national, and global, and look for explanations and different outcomes

e.g. Changes in population levels

Examples of environmental change? (4)

Deforestation, damming, mining, pollution

Types of changes to the land?

As population has increased, so have cities, towns, and farms to make room

Types of changes to the atmosphere?

Dumping chemicals, burning fossil fuels, airborne chemicals, breakdown of ozone layer

Types of changes to the water?

Damming + diverting waterways, polluted water becoming undrinkable

What are the human-centred world views?

Egocentric - I am the most important creature and everything serves me

Anthropocentric - Humans are the most important species and are in charge of Earth

What are the Earth-centred world views?

Ecocentric - We should do everything we can to minimise our impact, we are not that important

Biocentric - We need to use the Earth’s resources sustainably and treat other species right