Geography of Northern Europe

Topics

• In this course, we conduct a systematic regional survey of the Northern
• covered. Broad course topics
• allow for more detailed regional case studies
• The following topics
• Northern Europe - physical extent and boundaries
• Physiography and climate
• Politics
• European Union
• Northern European cultural identities
• Historic population migrations in Northern Europe
• Languages
• Religion and ethnic identity
• Economics of the North
• Financial Centres
• European Integration
• northern Europe while emphasizing the larger issues listed above
• Regions of special interest
• The Netherlands
• Dutch attitudes towards personal freedoms (the notorious Dutch “liberality”)
• Dutch relationship with their peculiar geographic natural environment setting (dealing
• with floods as a national policy)
• Additional reading case study: ”The port of Rotterdam as an engine for European
• integration”
• Sweden
• Effective Environmental Energy Policy