Riga, Latvia

Natural Sciences (Social and Economic Geography)

Dabaszinātnes (Sociālā un ekonomiskā ģeogrāfija)

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⇑Natural Sciences (Social and Economic Geography) at University of Latvia

Language: Latvian Studies in Latvian
Subject area: physical science, environment
University website: www.lu.lv
Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Zinātnes doktora grāds, zinātnes doktors(-e) (Ph.D.) sociālajās zinātnēs
Duration: 3 years

⇑Definitions and quotes

Geography
Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. The first person to use the word "γεωγραφία" was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC). Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of the Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be.
Social
Living organisms including humans are social when they live collectively in interacting populations, whether they are aware of it, and whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.
Geography
Since my youth geography has been for me the primary object of study. When I was engaged in it, having applied the considerations of the natural and geometric sciences, I liked, little by little, not only the description of the earth, but also the structure of the whole machinery of the world, whose numerous elements are not known by anyone to date.
Gerardus Mercator (1578), Introduction to Ptolemy's Geography
Geography
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent.
Geography
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.
Mitch Hedberg, — quoted in John Krygier, Denis Wood (2011). Making Maps, Second Edition. The Guilford Press. p. 58. ISBN 1609181670. 
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