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| Term | Definition |
| 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 |
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