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Glossary of key geographers and their concepts
Created by collegegirl26
- Alfred Weber
- LEAST COST THEORY MODEL: Factory location based on 1.Transportation 2.Labor 3.Agglomeration (clustering of industries to share facilities,people,services)
- Burgess
- Cocentric Zone model of urban structure
- Carl Sauer
- -Cultural Landscapes(visible imprint of human activity on the landscape) led to cultural ecology
-Diffusion of Agricultural practices from a hearth - E.G. Ravenstein
- Laws of Migration 1. REASONS: economic, cultural environmental push and pull factors 2.DISTANCE:internal,international 3.CHARACTERISTICS:of migrants:gender, family status
- Halford Mackinder
- HEARTLAND THEORY OF GEOPOLITICS:Land based power would control the world after controlling Eastern Europe the \"pivot area\"
- Harris and Ullman
- Multiple Nuclei Model
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- WORLD SYSTEMS THEORY: 1.world economy has one market,2.everything takes place within the the context of the world economy,3.world structure is a three-tiered structure (core,periphery,semi-periphery)
- Johann von Thunen
- Von Thunen\'s model described the spatial distribution of agricultural activities(products in rings around the central city based around the central city based on perishability and transportation costs
- Thomas Malthus
- World population would outstrip food supply(pop. increases geometrically, food supply increased arithmetically)
- W.W. Rostow
- DEVELOPMENT MODEL THROUGH INTERNATIONAL TRADE: 1. Traditional 2.Preconditions for take-off 4.Drive to Maturity 5. Age of mass consumption
(MDCs in 4,5 LDCs in 1,2,3 pass through early stages, problems= uneven resources,market stagnation, increased dependence on MDCs) - Walter Christaller
- CENTRAL PLACE THEORY:Explains how services are distributed and why a pattern exists(market center for a market area or hinterland,hexagons used need to know the range and threshold)
