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| show | A measure of the participating portion of an economy's labor force
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| Brian drain | show 🗑
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| Calorie consumption | show 🗑
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| show | A process through which tendencies for economic growth are self-reinforcing; an expression of the multiplier effect, it tends to favor major cities and core regions over less-advantaged peripheral regions
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| Cultural convergence | show 🗑
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| Currency manipulation | show 🗑
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| Development | show 🗑
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A form of tourism pursued by many ecologically concerned perople, who visit regions having pristine ecosystems and, in the process, to inflict no environmental damage
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| Energy consumption | show 🗑
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| Food Security | show 🗑
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| show | investments made by a foreign company in the economy of another country
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| Gallatin Plan | show 🗑
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| show | A measure of the opportunities given to woman compared to men within a given country.
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| Gross domestic product (GDP) | show 🗑
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| show | The total value of goods and services produced per year at home or abroad by domestically owned interest within a country. Formerly called gross national product
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| show | educated workers from poor countries go to wealthy countries for higher paying jobs. good for new country: gets talented labor. Good for old (poor)country: gains capital sent home and higher wages for those left behind
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| Human development index | show 🗑
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| Informal economy | show 🗑
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| Interstate Highway System | show 🗑
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| Levels of development | show 🗑
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| Manufacturing region | show 🗑
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| Measures of development | show 🗑
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| show | A highway system that had been established by the 1920's. It led tot he development of the US routes seen today, consisting of odd-numbered north-south roads and even-numbered east-west routes.
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| show | A disparaging reference to economic and political policies by which major developed countries are seen to retain or extend influence over the economies of less-developed countries and peoples. A continuing expression of Dependency Theory
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| Neoliberal globalization | show 🗑
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| show | retailers that sell goods to fulfill a particular need, such as an outdoor equipment company.
Examples: Land's End, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shop
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| show | An Origin, destination, or intersection place in a communication or Transportation Network
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| show | A measurement of a country's wealth that takes account of what money actually Buys in the country, relative to the cost of living
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| show | Money sent by International migrants back to family members in their home country
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| Regionalization | show 🗑
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| Rostow, W.W. | show 🗑
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| Sustainable development | show 🗑
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| show | The contrast between the technology available in developed core regions and that present in peripheral areas of under development
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| Technopole | show 🗑
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| show | The diffusion to our acquisition by one culture or region of the technology possessed by another, usually more developed, Society
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| show | Originally (1950s) designating countries uncommitted to either the first world Western capital is block or the second world Eastern communist Bloc. Subsequently, a term applied to countries considered in a state of under development and economic and social terms
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| show | The diffusion outward of the benefits of economic growth and prosperity from the Power Center or core area to pour districts in people
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| show | A level of economic and social achievement below what could be reached, given the natural and human resources of an area, were necessary capital and Technology available
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| World city | show 🗑
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| Modernization Theory | show 🗑
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| Core-Periphery model | show 🗑
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| “Stages of Growth” model | show 🗑
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| show | States that LDCs tend to have a higher dependency ratio, the ratio of the number of people under 15 or over 64 to the number in the labor force.
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| World systems theory | show 🗑
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| “just in time” delivery | show 🗑
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| show | Precipitation that is usually acidic and created when oxides of sulfur and nitrogen change chemically as they dissolve in water vapor in the atmosphere and return to Earth as acidic rain, snow, or fog
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| Agglomeration economy | show 🗑
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| Air pollution | show 🗑
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| Aluminum industry (factors of production, location) | show 🗑
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| Assembly line production/Fordism | show 🗑
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| show | the inputs required for production, such as machinery, machine tools, metal working, and iron casting.
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| show | employment that supports jobs in the service sector and other manufacturing industries
Example: Restaurants and Retailers
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| show | a geographical theory that refers to how the price and demand on land changes as the distance towards the CBD
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| show | A location where goods are transferred from one type of carrier to another as in from barge to Railroad
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| show | An industry in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs.
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| show | An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs.
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| Carrier efficiency | show 🗑
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| Commodity chain | show 🗑
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| show | The principle that an area produces the items for which it has the greatest ratio of advantage or the least ratio of disadvantage in comparison to other areas, assuming free trade exist
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| show | An idea by Thorstein Veblen (sociologist) that people feel the need to display their status by ostentatiously consuming goods and services
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| Cumulative causation | show 🗑
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| show | The process of D concentration. The location of industrial or other activities away from established agglomerations in response to Growing cost of congestion, competition, and regulation
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| Deindustrialization | show 🗑
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| Deterritoralization | show 🗑
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| Discretionary income | show 🗑
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| Economic sectors | show 🗑
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| show | Characterizes a production process in which an increase in the scale of the firm causes a decrease in the long run average cost of each unit. Importance is that it renders competition in the market.
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| Energy Resources | show 🗑
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Is a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, alternative energy.
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| show | One or more areas of a country with tariffs and quotas for goods leaving a country
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| show | Expenses that do not change in proportion to the activity of a business.
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| show | A descriptive term applied to the manufacturing activities for which the cost of transporting material or product is not important in determining location of production. An industry or firm showing neither Market nor material orientation
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| Greenhouse effect | show 🗑
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| show | Growth of the economy is not uniform over the entire region. Important to economist growth theories.
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| Heartland/rimland Theory | show 🗑
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| Industrial location theory | show 🗑
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| Industrial parks | show 🗑
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| Industrial revolution | show 🗑
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| show | The basic structure of services, installations, and Facilities needed to support industrial, Agricultural, and other economic activity, including transportation and communication, along with water, power, and other utilities
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| show | The relative proportion of labor used in production compared in capital. It is key in geography because it is used to describe the amount of work to each employee which speaks to the overall efficiency of a business.
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| show | The location where a balance between lowest land costs and lowest transportation costs is achieved. It is important because it explains the location of many businesses, particularly those in industry.
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| show | Reductions in production costs by locating in areas where wages are lower or some other factor makes it cheaper to produce in that area
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| Major manufacturing regions | show 🗑
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| show | Foreign-owned manufacturing plant located in Mexico for the low-cost assembly of clothing, Electronics, Automobiles, and other export products
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| Market orientation | show 🗑
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| Mass consumption | show 🗑
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| Mass production | show 🗑
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| Mercantilism | show 🗑
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| Multidivisional Corporation | show 🗑
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| Multiplier effect | show 🗑
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| show | North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement
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| New International division of labor | show 🗑
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| Optimum location | show 🗑
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| show | Producing abroad parts or products for domestic use or sale. Subcontracting production or Services rather than performing those activities in house
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| Postindustrial | show 🗑
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| show | A consistent cold temperature used to preserve perishable items during transportation and storage. Importance: Allows for longer travel distance in trade and availability to distant markets, increasing potential demand.
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| show | Future shortages of non-renewable energy sources with increased demand, solvable by use of renewable energy. Importance: Worldwide lack of resource in extremely high demand.
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| Service-Based economies | show 🗑
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| show | specific area within a country in which tax incentives and less stringent environmental regulations are implemented to attract foreign business and investment. SEZ's or Special
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| Substitution principle | show 🗑
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| Sun Belt | show 🗑
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| Time-space compression | show 🗑
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| show | Deliberate killing of a place through industrial expansion and change so its landscape is destroyed.
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| Transnational Corporation | show 🗑
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| show | cost of enterprise operation that varies either by output level or by location of the activity
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| show | investments typically made in the early stages of developing companies in the hope of generating a favorable return through the growth or sale of the companies; venture capital investments are generally made as cash in exchange for shares in the invested company.
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| Weber, Alfred | show 🗑
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| show | an industry that manufactures a large-sized product from small-sized raw materials
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| Weight-losing | show 🗑
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| show | dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc
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| show | economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment; such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture
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| show | economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector
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| Tertiary ECONOMIC activity | show 🗑
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| Quaternary ECONOMIC activity | show 🗑
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| Quinary ECONOMIC activity | show 🗑
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| FOUR TIGERS | show 🗑
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| show | Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa - Show the shift in global economic power
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| FORWARD LINKAGES | show 🗑
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