Agricultural geography

The Agricultural Geography, Agricultural Geography also, is the branch of geography and recorded, describes and explains the agrarian part of the earth's surface after its substance, its shape, the position and structure as well as the effect of the microstructure occurring geological factors leading to this phenomenon.

Approaches

Within the geography, agricultural geography of human geography is to be assigned. Traditionally it is seen there as part of economic geography (primary sector). With progression of a holistic approach to geography, agricultural geography is usually not isolated anymore, but operated under respective regional geographic issues (eg, Mountain Research, Geographical Development Research ).

In the course of time, various agricultural geographical approaches developed:

• Landscape customer ( Otremba 1976)
• Spatial structure of the various manifestations of Agriculture ( Manshard 1968)
• Form of operation types in the spatial system of climates, emphasizing economic principles ( Andreae 1983)
• Theoretical behavior and perception geographical questions
• Culture Geographical aspects ( human-environment relationship, cultural ecology)
• Applied agricultural geography to planning solution of problems between humans and the environment (rural development )

Topics

Research topics range from location theories of agrarian land use (eg Thünensche rings), regional agricultural land use systems (eg tropics), to the agricultural colonization, to the effects of urban sprawl and land consumption.