What is GIS? GIS stands for Geographic Information system. GIS has so many functions in our world today, it should be viewed as a process rather than as merely software or hardware. To see GIS as merely a software or hardware system is to miss the crucial role it can play in …
Medical geography and medicine are disciplines that are closely related. Medical geography is concerned with population health issues and spatial variation in the causes, distribution, prevention and treatment of diseases. While other health professions are particularly about the health challenge to improve the development and longevity of human life. Medical geography is …
Water resources are of the essentialnatural resources that are very useful in all aspects of human life, as potential resources, they can be renewed and recycled and stored over longer time. Water is used on a daily basis for different purposes such as for washing, cleaning, irrigation, swimming, cooling and manufacturing of goods …
What is planning? The concept of planning is a complex phenomenon that has attracted many definitions. However, a review of a number of definitions from early works of administrators and social scientists led to the identification of the following school of thoughts: Different Definitions of Planning Definition of Planning as a Basic …
Natural resources are referred to as biophysical materials that satisfy human wants and provide direct inputs to human well-being. They are widely scattered all over the earth and are unevenly distributed, including the flora and fauna, the mineral deposits, water bodies, consisting of sea, river, ocean streams and lake, weather and climate, …
Migration might be seasonal, ranging from a period of one year to two years or it might even be permanent. There are countless of reasons why immigrants choose to migrate from their point of origin to point of destination; people would naturally move from areas of poverty or areas of poor prospect …
Resources in a wider sense may be grouped into renewable or non-renewable resource. It is renewable when we talk of crops and other forest resources which may take a short period of time to grow and be harvested while the non- renewable resources are those things that take millions of years to …
Land useis simply the human use of land. Land use in the urban area is generally conform to a regular predictable pattern the decision to develop a pieces of land for a particular use may be made independently by various private businessmen and women. The primary reason for allocating a specific use …