LFU:online

Students get an overview on on modern geography as a human-environemnt discipline. They understand spatial structural patterns, conficts and processes, they can assess startegies and politics of spatial regulation. They are familiar with with the major contents and key structures of the relevant geography curricula.  

• movie „home-project“ • deriving question from the movie• What is geography? • Which questions does geography ask? • overview of the development of geography• Innsbruck concept of geograhy: „Global Cahnge - Regional Sustaianbility• System Earth- physical basis of the natural sytemn • Humankind and system Earth• human-environment interaction moutain systems  • human-environment interaction Amazonia • Phycal Geography: fundamental concepts– methods • Human Geography: fundamental concepts– methods • Food and agriculture• settlements and cities• Mobility and tourism • Global inequalities • Energy and ressources• environmental pollution • Climate change• Erosion and natural hazards • branches of physical geography I: developments, appoaches, methods•  branches of physical geography II: developments, appoaches, methods • branches of human geography I: developments, appoaches, methods • branches of human geography II: developments, appoaches, methods

lecture with tutorial

written examination

Will be discussed in the first lesson.