GEO
101 World Human Geography
Spring 2008
Lecture
Outline
Geography
Matters!
Matters!
Economic Development
What is Economic Geography?
What is Development?
Measuring Development
- Development is Uneven Why?
- How Development is Interconnected with Underdevelopment
Principles of Industrial Location: Types and Locations of Industries
Types of Industrial (Economic) Activity
- Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary
- locational factors of each
- bulk and weight gaining and losing, costs of labor etc.
Interdependence and Agglomeration
- Backward and Forward Linkages
Maquiladoras and Export Processing Zones