← How a cultural process shapes geographic environments
Reading the notation
NZQA defines a small set of geographic concepts precisely, and using their exact wording signals you are applying a concept rather than just describing.📖 Concepts used in this standard
7 termsCover the right column and check you can say what each one means.
- Cultural process
- A sequence of human actions that shapes and changes environments, places and societies. Urbanisation, tourism, globalisation, agricultural intensification, deforestation, mining, gentrification, migration are all examples.
- Elements
- The identifiable components that make up a process — for tourism: attractions, transport and access, accommodation, marketing, visitor numbers, spending, infrastructure, regulation.
- Interaction / links
- How one element of the process drives or changes another — the mechanism connecting them, not just a list of the elements themselves.
- Spatial variation
- How the intensity of the process differs from PLACE to place within your environment.
- Temporal variation
- How the intensity of the process differs from TIME to time — seasonally, across a policy change, or as a long-term trend.
- Impact
- A positive or negative consequence of the process, on the environment or on people — almost always a REDISTRIBUTION (someone gains, someone loses) rather than a simple gain or loss.
- Management
- How the process is regulated or redirected — planning rules, resource consents, pricing, visitor caps — itself part of the ongoing process, not a separate add-on.