John Agnew is a professor known for his work in Geopolitics. He distinguished the three components that define place as a "meaningful location". Location tells you where the place is found. Locale describes the area and social relation. While sense of place expresses the attachments made to a place by people. An event I will use to explain the three aspects is the flood of Buffalo Creek, and you will understand how place is important in understanding interactions between humans and the environment.
Located in Logan County, West Virginia; Buffalo Creek Hollow was a home to the coal mining families. The locale was on a mountain side, people lived along hollow of the creek. For those living in the area they had fond memories, and tragic as the
