Space, settlement and resources: long term process
[SPED2010]
[30h] 5 credits
Teacher(s): Karen Bahr, Michel Poulain
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
Main themes
The concept of " settlement " is linked to the way a population is settled in an area, a given space, and the way this popula-tion may evolve. Moreover, in a dynamic perspective, " settlement " is also concerned by migration process that affects the way population is geographically spread out.
The last concept of " resources " conveys ideas of potentialities from an inhabited physical space and from where some actors try to take advantages of these resources through different socio-economic practices.
Here there are some transversal themes that will be studied in integrating together the three concepts:
- Space- Settlement-Resources : theoretical approaches
- The main periods in the world populating history
- The Proto-industrialization - countryside crises - rural depopulation - industrialization process within European and extra-European contexts
- The periurbanization: explanatory factors and consequences in terms of social, economic and environmental impacts.
- Urbanization-megalopolization in countries from the South: large urban areas dynamic, the way some cities can be densely occupied by the poor social class activities, socio-economic networks between countryside and cities.
- Definition and boundaries of a sustainable development for cities from the North as well as from the South.
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