UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOGRAPHY TOURISM AND TRAVEL MANAGEMENT
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Paper XI - Man and Environment

Duration: 3hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

1. Environment relationship between man and environment-man's role in changing environment-impact on environment-degradation concepts of eco-system.

2. Determinism - possibilism - stop and go determinism - types of civilisation and culture.

3. House types-distribution-settlements-rural and urban-types and forms of rural settlements.

4. Urban settlements-site and situation of town-functional classification - qualitative (aurosseau) and quantitative (nelson's) - urban structure-theories of urban land use-cbd-urban hierarchy-urban fringe.

5. Population - growth - factors of growth-natural - migration-sex ratiopyramids-evaluation - structure - population-factors of distributionpatterns of distribution and its associated problems.

Reference:

1. Hudson F.S.-1975- A Geography of Settlement - McDonald and Evane-Plymouth

2. Coh Cheny Leong and Gilliam C.Morgan - Human and Economic Geography - Oxford University Press - Oxford.

3. Clarke J.l.-1972 - Population Geography - Roof Pergaon - Oxford Press

4. B.N. Ghosh-1985 - Fundamentals of population Geography - Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.- New Delhi

5. G.Taylor & Millet J. Wentworth-1990- Living in the Environment.