GEOGRAPHY I

The teaching is among the basic educational activities of the Bachelor of Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management.
The course aims to explore some central themes of human geography, using the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030).
During the teaching, it will be provided contents and interpretive tools useful for understanding some issues central to the discipline - poverty, hunger, climate change, development - their evolution, spatial spread, and the elements that characterize them.

By the end of the course, students will be familiar with the main topics of study in human geography, corresponding to key issues in international politics and current affairs. Again, students and students will be able to understand the links between society and the environment, spatially situate phenomena and illustrate the approaches used by geography in investigating and conceptualizing them. Finally, students will be expected to be able to express acquired knowledge in writing in a logical, coherent and concise manner, using an appropriate linguistic and semantic register.

General knowledge of Earth space features and cartography.

The course addresses some key themes in human geography, using the key of the Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030). In particular, the following themes will be explored: poverty (focus on population and migration), hunger (focus on agriculture and the global food system), climate change (focus on the anthropocene, forests, international environmental policies), and development (focus on the paradigm, actors involved and globalization).
The four key themes will be presented illustrating the link with the territory, the connections between global and local scales, and the situation in the Italian context.

Attending students:
. Course notes;
. Greiner A.L., Dematteis G., Lanza C., Geografia umana, Torino, UTET, 2019, terza edizione (N.B. Limitatamente ai capitoli 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11).
. McNeil J. R., Angelke P., La grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’antropocene dopo il 1945, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 2018.

Non-attending students:
. Greiner A.L., Dematteis G., Lanza C., Geografia umana, Torino, UTET, 2019, terza edizione (N.B. Limitatamente ai capitoli 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11).
. McNeil J. R., Angelke P., La grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’antropocene dopo il 1945, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 2018.
. McMichael P., Ascesa e declino dello sviluppo. Una prospettiva globale, Franco Angeli, 2006.

The exam consists of a written test with questions related to the topics covered.
For attending students, the questions deal with lecture notes and the texts indicated in the syllabus.
For non-attending students, the questions deal exclusively with the texts in the syllabus.

Lectures with class discussion and use of video and photographic materials.

The office hours for students are held online, on Wednesday, in the time 9-11 a.m.. Prior arrangement with the lecturer is necessary (please, write an email to stefania.albertazzi@unive.it).

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Climate change and energy" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development