Unit 6 - Industrialization and Economic Development
A. Key concepts in industrialization and development
B. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
A. Key concepts in industrialization and development
B. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
- The changing roles of energy and technology
- Industrial Revolution
- Evolution of economic cores and peripheries
- Geographic critiques of models of economic localization (i.e., land rent, comparative costs of transportation), industrial location, economic development, and world systems
- Spatial organization of the world economy
- Variations in levels of development
- Deindustrialization
- Pollution, health, and quality of life
- Industrialization, environmental change, and sustainability
- Local development initiatives: government policies