1 EG Flashcards
EG definition!!!
economic processes manifested across territories at various scales.
Geographically specific factors that shape economic processes and identify key agent and drivers that prompt uneven territorial development
What influence agriculture
Climate
Natural Resources (soil)
labour
Industialization affect to
- Firm
- industries
- Factory wages
- production process
- technology and innovation
- quality and skilled workers
- role of the state
Key agent
Labour
Firm
State
Key agent: Labour
key agent:
- production
- location
- mobility
Division of labour imports on: Variation in household incomes, productivity, social processes
work changed under globalization
- from large-scale to smaller-batch production
- from manufacturing to services
- shift away form family wage
Key agent: Firm
Key agent:
- Creating job
- commercializing innovation
- delivering new products & services
require a certain quality & quantity of labour
access to a certain quality and quantity of markets
Key agent: State
Key agent: economic growth
states controls access to capital & labour
influences firm location decisions (tax, subsidies, manage international trade & FDI, innovation is captured within state’s territory)
Space
refer to a wider physical distance and area (surrounding)
Place
Somewhere in particular (specific, explain very detail what is going on)
Scale
Global Macroregional (EU) National Regional (California) Local (London City) lived Space (workplace)
we look at the problem in different scales
Regions!!!
Areas of the earth’s surface marked by certain properties
All region have: Area, Boundaries, Location
Types of Region!!!
- Formal (homogeneous/uniform) region
- Funcional/nodal region
- Planning region
Formal Region!!!
marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena (e.g. language region, unemployment rate)
Functional region!!
Difficult to find the border
there is a center with jobs, uni. in the periphery people lives. this people have orientation to the center.
have a dynamic internal structure
spatial system focused on a central core
formed by a set of places and their functional integration
e.g Cologne (crating job, G&S…)
there is difference between sectors.
Planning region!!!
Define normatively Amministrative regions -Federal states -Regierungsbezirke -district -communities
Europe Definition
Historically: one of the 7 continents
Geographically: nordwestern subcontinent of Eurasia
EU + CH + NW
Subdivision of Europe
- British islands
- Northern Europe,
- Western Europe,
- Mediterranean Europe,
- Eastern Europe
difference geographer and economist
economists:
look at the country
they expect equilibrium
geographer:
look at the regions
they don’t expect that there will be balance
Historical EG
Examines history of the development of spatial economic structure
Approaches of EG
Theoretical EG
Historical EG
Regional EG
Behavioral economic
Theoretical EG
focuses on building theories about spatial arrangement
deductive and inductive
Regional EG
Examines the economic condition of particular region (different scales)
Deals with economic regionalization
Behavioral EG
examines the cognitive process underlying spacial reasoning
Locational decision making and behavior of firm and individuals
