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Humanistic geography is a perspective of Human geography based on humanism , which emphasizes human awareness, values and experience. It seeks to achieve an understanding of the human world by studying people’s relation with nature and their spatial behaviour in terms of their feelings and ideas about space and place(i.e., Man-Environment Relationship).It developed as a response to the quantitative revolution in Human Geography.It is concerned with the social organization of space. It is sub-divided into: a) Idealism; b) Phenomenology; c) Existentialism. It is non-scientific and non-law seeking approach.             Human geography is a branch of geography and deals in the study of the people and their activities . It includes the major systematic fields of – behavior, cultural, economic, urban political geography etc. (i.e., all aspects of non-physical environment of geography). It covers three related themes – a) Spatial analysis; b) Study of inter-relationships

a) Peculiarity of subject matter in the sense that geography is nourished by different subjects. Example:-Climateology is a part of independent subject meteorology, Soil geography is a part of pedology. b)the history of evolution of this subject shows variation in it’s nature for the last 200 years i.e., paradigm instability, focus changed(theoretical and practical). c) Different paradigm remained co-existant and one school of thought never replaced another and is present in conflicting relation to each other. d) There is no interpretative closure in the physical geography’s definition and the absence of a grand or meta-theory in the geography. Several definition have been forwarded by Jones, D. Smith, Hartshorne, F. Shaefer etc. e) Unclear relation between the ‘signified (objects of interest) and the ‘signifier’ (words spoken in favour of the concepts perceived by a geographer and/ or a school of thought). Example:- whether a hill is a ‘monadnock’ or an ‘inselberg’ is a

Location may be defined as   an area or place commonly recognized and defined , where something is situated. It is normally treated as a point at the scale of observation used. It is divided into 2 categories:- a) absolute or primary Location:- It gives the exact position in terms of spatial coordinates of an object or place in relation to a conventional grid reference system. b) Relative or secondary Location:- It considers where an object or activity is located in terms of advantages or disadvantages of a particular location measured with reference to all competing location. Whereas, Space is defined as areal extent , used both absolute and relative in human geography.It is divided into 2 categories:- a) absolute space:- It is objective, distinct, physical and real. It’s a dimension focusing on concentration on things (characteristics) and their dispersion. b) Relative space/plastic/created space:- It is perceptual and socially produced.Hence, it’s the size and fo

India produces 3% of world fish & occupies seventh place among the fish producing nations of the world & provides employment to >1 million people & accounts for 1% of total agricultural income of India.India has a coastline of >7517 Km & it's continental shelf spreading along over 311680 kilometer square.75% of marine fish landings occur along the western coast while the rest occurs along it's eastern coast.Her ocean is least exploited ocean of the world in terms of fishing.The important fish caught are shark,sardine,herrings etc.Inspite of the marine potential of 20-25 million tonnes only 10%-12% is caught at present.The reasons behind this sad state of affairs are:- a) Historical :-Indian naval fleet remained at it's infancy till the British occupation of India.The silk route the major trade route of asia was land based & india traded via land rather than making a sincere attempt via sea.The pre-mughal era saw the presence of a large numb

Traditionally space is defined as something ‘boundless, extending in all directions and of infinite divisibility’. Concept of space was defined by Aristotle as- “the logical condition for the existence of things”. Whereas, I. Newton thought space as – “An objective reality but intrinsically void”. Concept of space has the fundamental function in Hartshorne’s thesis where he used ma comparison to disclose ‘ functional integration of phenomena ’ over space that perhaps prepared the way for the development of a formal ‘spatial science’. It was in late 1940’s and early 1950’s that the concept of space became ‘ a recognizable tradition of enquiry’ in modern geography when F. Shaeter stressed on the importance of the spatial relations and objected the manifest ‘exceptionalism’ of Hartshornian tradition. D. Whittlesey proposed space as – ‘ the basic organizing concept of geography’. Space is not a singular concept. Space is defined by distance. Distance on the other hand is rela