Economic Geography

EES 330

What is geography?

It is the study of space, how the Earth’s surface is used, how society produce places, and how human activities are stretched among different locations

What are a geographer’s tools?

latitude/longitude, location/position and place, maps, aerial photography, remote sensing, and GIS

What is discrete space?

It is a finite set of non-overlapping spatial units that make up a larger study area and each unit has a boundary. Ex. formal and functional regions

What is continuous space?

It is space comprised an infinite number of points that could be located at (x,y).

How does one use discrete space concepts (peechance)

Income by county,

How do you use continuous space?

concepts dealing with location of a point (i.e. classic location models), dealing with patterns of points,

Weber’s Classic location model

M1 & M2 = location of raw materials 1 & 2, C = location of consumers, P = location of production

Distribution of features in spaces is often regular and can be described by their ________________

density, concentration, and pattern

What is relocation diffusion?

The spread of a feature through physical movement of people from one place to another. People carry them their culture, including language, religion, and ethnicity

What is expansion diffusion?

It is the spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process. It may result from hierarchical diffusion, contagious diffusion, or stimulus diffusion.

What is the friction of distance?

It was the cost for people, goods, or information across distance. To over this, we use: transportation and communication

What is distance decay?

The farther away someone is from another, the less likely the two are to have connections.

What is space-time compression

It is the reduction in time it take to diffuse something to a distance place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems

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supply and demand

What is GDP?

Gross Domestic Production

What is the output measure?

The total value of the goods and services produced by all sectors of the economy: agriculture, manufacturing, energy, construction, the service sector, and government

What is expenditure measure?

It is the value of the goods and services bought by households and by households and by government, investment in machinery and buildings. This also includes the value of exports minus imports.

What is income measure?

It is the value of the income generated mostly in terms of profits and wages

What is economic geography?

It is a sub-discipline of geography that is concerned with the spatial organization and distribution of economic activities, the use of resources, and the geographic origins, structure, and dynamics of the world economy

What are the five themes of economic geography?

1. the study of space is inseparable from the study of time

2. Every place is part of a system of places

3. Human action always occurs in a biophysical environment

4. Culture is fundamental to economic geography

5. social relations are a necessary starting point to understanding societies and geographies

What are the dimensions of globalization?

culture and consumption, telecommunications, economy, knowledge economy