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Industrialization
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| Industrialization | Definition |
|---|---|
| NAFTA | NAFTA eliminated the majority of tariffs on products traded among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and gradually phased out other tariffs over a 15-year period. |
| OUTSOURCING | is subcontracting a process, such as product design or manufacturing, to a third-party company.[ |
| OZONE DEPLETION | describes two distinct, but related observations: a slow, steady decline of about 4 percent per decade in the total amount of ozone in Earth's stratosphere since the late 1970s |
| PLANT LOCATION | (blank) |
| POSTINDUSTRIAL | is a society in which an economic transition has occurred from a manufacturing based economy to a service based economy, a diffusion of national and global capital, and mass privatization. |
| REFRIGERATION | is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space, or from a substance, and rejecting it elsewhere for the primary purpose of lowering the temperature of the enclosed space or substance and then maintaining that lower temperature. |
| RESOURCE CRISIS | (blank) |
| RESOURCE ORIENTATION | (blank) |
| SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES (CHINA) | is a geographical region that has economic laws that are more liberal than a country's typical economic laws. |
| SPECIALIZED ECONOMIC ZONES | (blank) |
| SUBSTITUTION PRINCIPLE | is focused on the substitution of a product, service or process to another that is more efficient or beneficial in some way while retaining the same functionality. |
| THRESHOLD/RANGE | (blank) |
| TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION | (blank) |
| TOPOCIDE | (blank) |
| TRADE (COMPLEMENTARITY) | (blank) |
| TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION | (blank) |
| UBIQUITOUS | Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time. |
| VARIABLE COSTS | Variable costs are expenses that change in proportion to the activity of a business. |
| WEBER, ALFRED | Alfred Weber was a German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography. |
| WEIGHT-GAINING | Bodybuilding that increases muscle mass and body weight. |