Difficult Definitions Flashcards
Ageing Population
A population with a high proportion of old people aged 65 or over. Population pyramid loses pyramid shape and bulges in the middle.
Youthful Population
A population with a high proportion of young people aged 0-16. Wide base to due to high birth rate.
Skills test
A policy that limits migration by only allowing people with needed skills into the country in order to boost the economy of the host country. Can be a points based system based on knowledge/qualifications/ability to speak language
GDP
How much money a country has. An economic measurement of development
The Development Gap
The difference between the richest countries in the world and the poorest countries in the world. It has widened dramatically over the past 200 years.
Core region
An area at the heart of economic activity such as Maharashtra
Periphery Region
An area located on the edge of the core
Primary Industry
The extraction of raw materials
Secondary Industry
Manufacture of goods and products
Tertiary Industry
The tertiary sector provides services, skills goods and products from primary and secondary industry, such as teachers
Quaternary
Science, development and research
Green Employment
Jobs that attempt to improve air and water quality, recycle and reuse waste, promote conservation and improve the environment
Deindustrialisation
The decline in secondary industry in a region
Greenfield Site
§A site proposed for development that has never been built on before such as the Cambridge science park
Brownfield Site
A site proposed for development that has previously been developed such asa Longbridge
Digital economy
An economy that is based on digital technologies. Also known as the internet economy
The internet economy is a synonym for which economy?
Digital economy
Renewable Energy
A recourse that can be replenished within a realistic timeframe
Foreign Direct investment
Investment from one country in to another, such as outsourcing
State led investment
Top down investment into a country by the government, such as 3 gorges dam
Renewable energy
A recourse that can be replenished with a realistic timeframe
Top down Development
A large scale development usually organised by the government or large international corporations/ companies such as 3 gorges dam
Bottom up development
Smaller scale developments where there local people are heavily involved in decisions being made such as ASTRA
ECO footprint
The impact of human activities measured on the area of land and water required to produce the goods consumed and to assimilate the wastes generated,
Self help schemes
Where individuals are given materials in order to improve their own homes. Dharavi.
TNCs Growth and Mergers
Where TNCs either merge with another company to form a new company or they take over from another company. Safeway and Morrison’s.
Knowledge economy
An economy in which growth is dependant on the quality , quantity and accessibility of the information available, rather than the means of production.
