ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains a series of different approaches to studying the relations between people and place. The human geographers have used the terms 'people' and 'place' in a bewildering variety of ways. The book begins by exploring the concept of globalization suggesting that it is rapidly changing the nature of relations between people and place. It focuses on the way in which people form emotional attachments to places. Such humanistic approaches have examined the way in which places become meaningful to people as they encounter them in their lives. Human geography necessarily involves the investigation of relationship between people and place, with different ideas of what 'people' are and what 'place' is having been adopted by different geographers at different times.
