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WORLD GEOGRAPHY December 2, 2014
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Today Unit 9 (Industry and Service – Economic Geography)
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Unit 9 – Industry and Services Aspects to be examined: - Industrial Revolution (origins and diffusion) - Location theories and industrialization - Changes of industrial production - Modern industrial belts - Service economy
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Flow of Capital into Europe, 1775
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Industrial Revolution - Origins - Textiles: Liverpool, Manchester - Iron: Birmingham - Coal mining: Newcastle
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Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution Mainland Europe: Early 1800s Location criteria: - Proximity to coal fields - Connection via water to a port - Flow of capital
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Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution Later: Late 1800s Some regions without coal Location criteria: - Access to railroad - Flow of capital
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Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
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Location Theories: Explaining Industrial Location Weber’s Model Manufacturing plants will locate where costs of transportation, labor, and agglomeration are the least Theory: Least Cost Theory Hotelling’s Model Location of an industry cannot be understood without reference to other industries of the same kind Theory: Locational Interdependence Losch’s Model Manufacturing plants choose locations where they can maximize profit Theory: Zone of Profitability
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Location Theories: Weber’s Model Least Cost Theory Manufacturing plants will locate to places with lowest costs of: - transportation - labor - agglomeration
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Location Theories: Weber’s Model Least Cost Theory Transportation: - the site chosen must ensure lowest possible cost of: a) moving raw materials to the factory b) finished products from the site to the market - Most important aspect, according to Weber
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Location Theories: Weber’s Model Least Cost Theory Labor: - higher labor costs reduce profits, thus, a factory may be better served located farther from raw materials and the marketplace is cheap labor is available. (e.g. China, S-E Asia today)
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Location Theories: Weber’s Model Least Cost Theory Agglomeration: - When a large number of enterprises cluster (agglomerate) in the same area (often a city) - Can provide assistance to each other through shared talents, services, facilities. E.g. accounting
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Location Theories: Hotelling’s Model Locational Interdependence Location of an industry cannot be understood without reference to other industries of the same kind. E.g. ice cream salesmen on a beach
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Location Theories: Losch’s Model Zone of Profitability Manufacturing plants choose locations where they can maximize profits
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Major World Industrial Regions Before 1950 Main determinants: - Near raw materials - Transportation
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Major World Industrial Regions Before 1950 However, additional needs: - Goods and capital - Political circumstances - Economic leadership - Labor costs - Levels of education and training
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Flow of Capital into Europe, 1775
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Major World Industrial Regions - Western & Central Europe - Eastern North America - Russia and Ukraine - Eastern Asia Each region tends to have one or more core areas of industrial development
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Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
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Western and Central Europe 50% of all goods entering Europe through Rotterdam and Amsterdam
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Major deposits of fossil fuels in North America
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Major manufacturing regions of NA In north east, U.S. industries located along the coast for iron import agglomeration
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Major manufacturing regions of NA New York: -break-of bulk point
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Major manufacturing regions of NA Today: deindustrialization “the rust belt”
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Major manufacturing regions of Russia
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Major Manufacturing Regions of E. Asia Kanto Plain: Japan’s main industrial region - Almost 100% need for imported oil in Japan
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How Industrial Production Has Changed Fordist : Dominant mode of mass production during the twentieth century, with production of consumer goods at a single site Major focus was on the assembly line
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How Industrial Production Has Changed Post-Fordist : Current mode of production with more flexible production practices. - Goods not mass produced - Production accelerated and dispersed around the globe - Multinational companies that shift production, outsourcing it around the world Global Division of Labor
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Time-Space Compression Improvements in transportation and communications technologies (distance is much less important) Many places in the world more connected than ever before
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Next Class - Finish Unit 9 - Introduce Unit 10 (Human Environment)
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