Chapter 1 (GEOG)
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- transnational firms
- do global business through international subsidiaries and disrupts local ecosystems
- economic convergence
- the worlds poorest countries will gradually catch up to more advanced countries
- sweatshops
- crude factories where workers work for extremely low wages
- bubble economy
- when vast amounts of money flow into a developing country
- areal differentiation
- the differences that distinguish one part of the world from another
- areal integration
- the study of how places interact w/ eachother
- cultural landscape
- the visible material expression of human settlemen, past and present
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rate of natural increase
(RNI) - the annual growth for a country
- demographic transition
- a 4 stage conceptualization that tracks changesin birthrates and deathrates as a country urbanizes
- urbanized population
- % of a country's population living in cities
- urban primacy
- the city that is larger and dominates econonic, political and culture activities
- urban structure
- the distribution and patterns of land use in a city
- urban form
- physical arrangements of building, streets, parks etc...
- overurbanization
- the urban population grows more quickly then its services
- Squatter settlements
- illegal developements of housing on land that is not owned or rented
- Culture
- learned, not innate, and is shared behavior (way of life)
- Cultural imperialism
- the active promotion on cultural sytems at the expense of another
- Cultural nationalism
- the process of protecting and defending a cultural system
- cultural syncretism or hybridization
- blending of forces to create a new form of culture
- Universalizing religions
- religions that appeal to all people regardless of location or culture
- asymmetrical warfare
- the differnce between a super-power's military compared to lower levels
- centrifrugal forces
- cultural and political forces acting to weaken or divide and existing state
- nation-state
- a homogeneous cultural group with its own fully independent political territory
- centripetal forces
- promote politcal unity and reinforce state structure
- Ethnographic boundaries
- follow cutural traits such as language, religion
- Geometric boundaries
- perfectly staight lines without regard to physical or cultural
- Colonialism
- formal establishment of rule over a foreign population
- Decolonization
- process of colonies establishing a undependent government
- supranational government
- an organization of states linked by a goal
- core-periphery model
- US, Eurpope and Japan are the global economic core
- gross national income(GNI)
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gross domestic product (GDP)
+ net income from abroad - GNI per capita
- Divide the GNI by a country's population
- Sustaniable population
- an agenda of economic change and growth that seeks a balance with issues of enviromental protaction social equity