Geography and Human Populations: Course Project Analysis and Review

This project explores the intricate relationship between human populations and their environment, focusing on key concepts such as ecosystem, mining, infrastructure, and climate change. The assignment begins by establishing the profound impact of human activities on the Earth's geographical landscape, leading to the Anthropocene era. It then delves into the interdependencies of the chosen concepts, examining how mining activities, climate change conditions, and infrastructural developments affect each other and human life. The project highlights the importance of geographical knowledge in understanding the consequences of daily activities on both local and global scales. It emphasizes the need to enhance awareness of climate change effects and the importance of ecosystem services and biodiversity. The conclusion stresses the necessity for proper management of agricultural systems, forests, and grasslands to meet multiple goals, including carbon storage, watershed protection, and biodiversity conservation, ultimately advocating for a more informed and sustainable approach to human-environment interactions. The project also includes a review of relevant literature.

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Introduction
According to researchers and scientists, the current human generation is living in a period
and time which human beings have become so influential and dominant. Human activities have
transformed the state of the original earth’s geographical view. Human beings are planting fields,
damming rivers, digging up minerals, building cities, fishing the oceans, planting fields, building
cities, building roads and also congesting the atmosphere with satellites and carbon dioxide
release. This has led to the era of “Human Planet”, the “Anthropocene”.
The Anthropocene include; industrial revolution brought about by humans have led to
expansion of cities, population increase, expansion of transport networks, use and depletion of
natural resources, as a result there have been many impacts especially on ecosystem integrity,
biodiversity and many other geographical processes. In order to study where we have come from
and where we are heading to as a species, it is significant to study some general topics like
mining, infrastructure, ecosystem and climate change. These topics can be generalized and
termed as human geography. These human geography themes are not all-inclusive, and they
interdepend on each other (Zellner, Massey, & Gonzalez, 2016).
Interrelationship between Ecosystem, Mining, infrastructure and Climate Change, and how they
impact Human life
Geographers nowadays study and teach us themes that are important to our daily life. Such
geographic knowledge makes us understand the things we carried out on daily basis like travels
and how they affect the environment for example through global warming.
Relating with the above stated themes, as the geographic distribution of mining activities
widen, climate change conditions such as precipitation and temperature shift, and also more
regular and extreme weather conditions will pose complicating impacts on the sector. Climatic
conditions affects the effectiveness and stability of equipment and infrastructure, closure of sites,
availability of routes of transportation, and environmental protection. Costs of energy and water
supply in mining and infrastructural areas may also rise due to climate change (Graeme, Brian, &
Mark, 2016).
Climate change is related to ecosystem in that it has numerous impacts on it. They include
health effects due to changes in water availability in rivers to changes in biodiversity which may
lead to water borne diseases. Climate change impacts on the tree species distribution through

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extreme events such as floods and droughts. Continued infrastructural development and climate
change has attracted many health effects to the ecosystem through extreme temperatures and
flood occurrences (Wendel, Downs, & Mihelcic, 2011).
Conclusion
Many people today do not believe that geographical concepts such as distance evaluation,
location, distribution membership, place recognition and regional contexts are important in our
road to word of technological development. People should be aware with these geographical
concepts enables us to understand how our daily activities impact our environment locally and
globally. There is need to enhance the knowledge about the effects of climate change and
impacts of exhaust gases such as carbon dioxide on ecosystem services and biodiversity. This
could be facilitated through connection of models of physical change in the climate system to
species response models. There is also necessity for studying ecosystems, species complexes,
ecosystem services and people who rely on them that are most vulnerable. Proper management
of agricultural systems, forests, and grasslands meet multiple goals which include carbon
storage, water shed protection, and conservation of biodiversity (Natalia & Joseph, 2019).

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References
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Natalia, R., & Joseph, D. (2019). Ecological Infrastructures Across Mediterranenan
Agroecosystems:Towards an Effective Tool for Evaluating their Ecological Quality.
ScienceDirect, 173, 355-363.
Wendel, H., Downs, J., & Mihelcic, J. (2011). Assesseing equitable access to urban green space:
the role of engineered water infrastructure. Environ.Sci.Yechnol, 45(2011), 6728-6734.
Zellner, M., Massey, E., & Gonzalez, M. (2016). Exploring the effects of green infrastructure
placement on neighborhood-level flooding via spatially explicit simulations. Comput
Environ Urban Syst, 59(2016), 116-128.