APHG Unit 3 Geographers to Know

Carl Sauer

Geographer from the University of California at Bed defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental graphical analysis. This landscape results from interaction between and the physical environment. He argued that virtually no land escaped alteration by human activities.

George Renfrew

He proposed that three areas in and near the first agricultural hearth, the Fertile Crescent, gave rise to three language families

Glen Elder

Major work was the "Children of the Great Depression" in 1974

J.H. von Thunen

discussed agricultural location as primarily a factor of transportation coast and profit maximization by farmers prior to industrialization.

Joseph Greenberg

The linguist whose analysis identified the four major language families in Africa

Waldo Tobler

an influential American-Swiss geographer and cartographer. His idea that "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related to each other" is referred to as the "first law of geography," summarized this law in the concept of distance decay.

Wilbur Zelinsky

geographer associated with migration transition--change in the migration pattern in a society that results from the social and economic changes that produce the demographic transition. Stage 2--international. Stage 3&4--internal