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3 pillars of sustainability | environment, economy, and society |
Brundtland Report | The 1987 U.N. report Our Common Future is a landmark work in recognizing sustainability as a combination of natural and human elements |
environmental determinism | Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, Friedrich Ratzel, Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington |
contemporary cultural landscape approach in geography | Paul Vidal de la Blache, Jean Brunhes, Carl Sauer, Robert Platt |
epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time |
pandemic | an epidemic that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population at the same time |
Dr. John Snow | created a hand-made GIS in 1854 to find the source of cholera in water pumps |
Wilbur Zelinsky | identified a migration transition, which consists of changes in a society comparable to those in the demographic transition |
preferences for migration | family reunification, skilled workers, diversity lottery |
brain drain | large scale emigration by talented people |