Reading Review Question #2

[Scott W. Schwartz]

Explain the concept of Environmental Determinism, and give one example.

(from Week 4)

[Syed Ali]

Environmental determinism is the concept of how the environment shapes how a people develop. One example being nations that have natural barriers tend to have a disposition towards isolationist ideas.

[Fahmi Imteaz]

Environmental Determinism is how the environment shapes the path of human development. For example, land near rivers had fertile soil helping in agriculture and useful for trade as well as having a lot of fish. This is why the first civilizations stated near rivers.

[xiaoting huang]

Environmental Determinism is a belief that mainly geographers adhere to where they believe that the physical environment shapes the cultures around us. For example, people who live near coasts focus on fishing and navigating waterways. Another example is that temperate mild climates produce inventive, industrious and democratic societies that are most likely to control others.

[Nelson Corchado-Brown]

I sum up the concept of Environmental Determinism as cultural transitions effected by climate change.

Example: A climate change from wet to cool can have an impact on crop growth.

[Leslieann]

Environmental determinism is how climate changes can affect societies/states and culture. An example of environmental determinism would be people who live near the coast or next to a river, because they settle near the water the soil is more fertile, which allows them to farm and cultivate easily as well as access to clean water to cook, bath and travel.

[Callahan J Smith]

Environmental Determinism is the common belief that a physical environment affects social and cultural development. To add to that, the climate also influences the psychological mindset of humans. They say that islands in the Caribbean have had an outside portrayal that they are relax due to being close to water and warmth but in actually they are all different personalities.

[Hakeem Bakare]

Physical condition combined with the land highlights impact and may even reason or breaking point the advancement of the social culture of the indigenous groups of individuals. Fundamentally, the earth directs every one of the parts of the domains of life and society exhibit in it.

Example : Skin becoming dark due to living in the Sub-Saharan Africa.

[Jose Diaz]

Environmental Determinism is the study of how the biotic and abiotic surroundings of an organism or population predisposes a group of people or a society toward a particular development paths or trajectories.

[Pat Bigby]

Environment determinism also known as climate determinism is an approach which implies that individuals are bound to their environmental settings, especially climate. In other words different environmental differences determine human behaviors. An example is a country in the Tropics such as Jamaica where people have the stereotype of them having a slow carefree mentality because it is in the tropics and is surrounded by the Caribbean sea.

[Bryan Hauptman]

Environmental Determinism implies that people, their cultures, and civilizations are bound to the environment around them.
Example: People living in states like Kansas have to worry about having underground shelters due to the fact that tornadoes are very common there.

[Sara González]

Environmental determinism is measured by climate or geographical determinism and people believe that this “physical environment” around us shape the social and cultural development. One example may be that people say that Alaska has a high rate of suicides, could this be because of the environment, weather, the fact that half of there year is dark. People who in Alaska who most definitely behave differently from a person from New York. Where here we have four seasons,  we have a “night” and “day.”

[Kimberly Medina]

Environmental Determinism is a belief in which the cultural and social development is affected by a physical environment. New Yorker’s look for other places besides the city to vacation in because the city is considered to be hectic and not relaxing in the slightest.

[Lalita Khemraj]

Environmental determinism is the belief that a physical environment affects social and cultural development. An example of this would be the emergence of ancient civilizations along major river banks, such as Egyptian civilization along the Nile River.

[Stanley Tillery]

Environmental determinism is the belief that a physical environment affects social and cultural development. An example of this is a characteristic of its kind or illustrating a general rule.

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