Agricultural geography
The agro - geography , also agro - geography , is part of the geography and records, describes and explains the agrarian part of the earth's surface according to its material, its shape, the position and structure as well as the effect of the geofactors that lead to this phenomenon.
approaches
Within geography, agricultural geography can be assigned to human geography . Traditionally it is seen there as part of the economic geography ( primary sector ). With the advancement of a holistic approach to geography, however, agricultural geography is usually no longer isolated, but carried out in the context of respective regional geographic issues (e.g. mountain research , geographic development research ). As an interdisciplinary field, it also belongs to the agricultural sciences .
In the course of time, different agro-geographical approaches developed:
- Landscape Science ( Otremba 1976)
- Spatial structure of the various manifestations of agriculture and forestry ( Manshard 1968)
- Types of operational forms in the spatial system of vegetation . and climate zones , emphasis on business aspects ( Andreae 1983)
- Behavioral and geographic issues
- Cultural geography aspects ( settlement geography of rural areas , human-environment relationship , cultural ecology )
- Applied agricultural geography for planning the solution of problems between humans and the environment ( rural development )
subjects
Research topics range from location theories of agricultural land use (e.g. Thünensche Rings ), regional agricultural land use systems (e.g. tropics ), through agricultural colonization to the effects of urban sprawl and land consumption .
See also
literature
- Erich Otremba : General agricultural and industrial geography . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1960.
- Bernd Andreae : Agriculturalography - Structural Zones and Forms of Operation in World Agriculture 2 editions . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1977/1983, ISBN 3-11-007034-0 / ISBN 3-11-008559-3 .
- Wolf-Dieter Sick : agricultural geography . Westermann, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3141602999 .
- David B. Grigg: An Introduction to Agricultural Geography . Routledge, London 1995, ISBN 9780415084437 .
- Adolf Arnold: General agricultural geography . Klett-Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1997, ISBN 362300846X .
- Guy M. Robinson: Geographies of Agriculture: Globalization, Restructuring and Sustainability . Pearson, London 2004, ISBN 9780582356627 .
- Andreas Voth & Werner Klohn: agricultural geography . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 353423362X .
