GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

The fact the immigrants moving to the UK have flocked to London is not surprising (View a map of the census data).  Immigration isn’t the only component to this situation.  White Britons are also leaving London in large number, prompting some to refer to this as “White Flight.”  Today, white Britons are no longer the majority population within London (but still the largest ethnic group).  Some feel that this story has gone underreported and deserves more analysis.  What elements of human geography should an observer of this situation use in their analysis?  

Tags: ethnicity, London, migration, census, urban.

This list of countries that no longer exist in their current form include Czechoslovakia, Tibet, Sikkim, the Ottoman Empire and the Soviet Union. 

Tags: unit 4 political, historical, devolution.  

As the climate began to cool the diet of the Greenland settlers changed dramatically.  Originally their diets consisted of about 20-30% seafood, but as farming became nearly impossible on this increasingly marginal land, it jumped up to about 80%.  The economic livelihood of the settlements was in danger and the solution lay in a cultural transition, but one that they didn’t want to make.  “They saw themselves as farmers and ranchers rather than fishermen and hunters...[and were] worried about the increasing loss of their Scandinavian identity.”  In essence they abandoned Greenland in part because they chose not abandon their Viking heritage to embrace a culture that would have be more like that of the Inuits.  Cultural factors may have mattered more than economic limitations.

Tags: Greenland, folk culture, historical.

This is a fabulous set of maps that shows the value of GIS to assess the market feasiblity for any given commodity.  On this Valentine’s Day, it is especially interesting to map out the zip codes that purchase the most flowers, jewelry and diamonds.    

Tags: games, K12.

I loved this cuff links that I my wife got me for our anniversary, so I thought this bracelet would be a great Valentine’s Day gift for her.  Want to make your own?  Then read on. 

During this recent recession, fertility rates in the United States have dropped with many speculating that the financial investment in child-rearing caused this shift.  The big question is this: will birth rates bounce back when the economy fully recovers or is the United States population going to follow the example of Western Europe?  What would the impact be for both of these scenarios?

Tags: USA, declining population, population, demographics, models, unit 2 population.