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| ENVT2043-1 | Elements of human and economic geography
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| Duration : | 24h Th |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | - Geography of populations - demographic dynamics: to include the demographic transition allowing to predict the populations evolution at the planetary scale, national Belgian demographic dynamics (statistical indicators and their interpretation, issues,...) and the local scale demography (local demographic diagnosis, scenarios and the needs of territorial management).
- Maps: from map-making history to Geographical Information Systems actual developments
- Urban geography: genesis and development of the town , organic and planified urban forms, the cities of Gembloux and Brussels as examples
- The three major types of European agrarian structures and rural landscapes
- Agro-geographic regions and rural landscape in Wallonia
- From geography to land management: environmental knowlegde as a basis for management of territories. |
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| Course objective : | This course is designed for students having taken a degree-level course in general environmental science and science of the living world. The course aims to present the way in which geographic science can contribute to one's knowledge of territories and of the relationships between man and territory, as an introduction to spatial analysis for the management through land planning.
After completing the course the student is expected to
After completing the course the student is expected:
- to understand the processes associated with population development at different territorial scales in order to identify management issues.
- to know the key steps in the history of cartography until modern geomatics .
- to understand the reading instruments of the urban structures from medieval to modern town, from small market city to megalopolis.
- to know the basis of the analysis of the European agrarian structures and their evolutions
- to read and characterise the specificities of diversity of the Walloon agrarian landscapes
- to understand the link between territorial diagnosis and development proposal for a rural area |
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| Organization : | Lectures : 24h |
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| Written notes : | Merlin P. (1997), "Géographie humaine", Paris, PUF, 576 p.
Noin D. et Thumerelle P.-J. (1995), "L'étude géographique des populations", Paris, Masson, 126 p.
Lebeau R. (1996), "Les grands types de structures agraires dans le monde", Paris, Armand Colin, 182 p. |
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| Assessment : | Written examination (100%) |
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| Contacts : | Feltz, Claude (Professeur)
Aménagement des Territoires
081 62 23 19
feltz.c@fsagx.ac.be |
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