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Agenda ► Questions? ► Review Defining economic geography Subfields of economic geography (Economic sectors) See NAICS link Approaches to economic geography ► Home sweet home ► Globalization trends ► Population, the Prime Variable
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What approach would you take, as an economic geographer, to understand this landscape?
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Globalization ► Origins with Marshall McLuhan, the “global village” – a Canadian! Time-space compression ► More than internationalization – extension of economic activity across national borders Essentially quantitative changes ► Process of qualitative change in functional integration (organization) of internationally dispersed activities
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Globalization defined ► Process by which people, ideas and activities become interconnected, integrated and drawn into the same social space at the same time. International trade in commodities Factors of production Information and attitudes/fashions/movements Ecological interdependence
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Globalization Trends ► Capital mobility ► Hegemony of Multinational firms ► Deregulation Nation-state has been weakened ► Global dualism – contradictory forces Supranationalism and convergence ► Global homogeneity (McDonaldization) ► Multinational trade blocs
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McDonald’s in Beijing
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Globalization Trends ► Capital mobility ► Hegemony of Multinational firms ► Deregulation Nation-state has been weakened ► Global dualism – contradictory forces Supranationalism and convergence ► Global homogeneity (McDonaldization) ► Multinational trade blocs Divergence/nationalism ► Devolutionary forces ► Underdevelopment and growing gap
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Global Population Processes 1. Population structure 2. Population distribution 3. Population growth 4. Population and resources
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Population density: Global scale
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Population density: Continental scale
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Population distribution: density ► Market potential: Population Purchasing power Close enough to patronize the market ► Ecological footprint ► Urban concentrations Megacities >10,000,000
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Population Growth ► Geographic variation ► Components of change Births Deaths Net migration ► In-migration ► Out-migration ► Demographic Transition Model
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Population Growth
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Demographic Transition Model
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