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| Rainfall with much higher acidity than normal, caused by sulfur and nitrogen oxides derived from the burning of fossil fuels being flushed from the atmoshere by precipitation, with lethal effects for many plants and animals. |
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| The range of economic activities that facilitate the consumption of goods. |
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| A traditiona type of manufacturing in the pre- industrial revolution era, practiced on a small scale in individual rural households as a part- time occupation and designed to produce handmade goods for local consumption. |
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| An industry engaged in the extraction of natural resources, such as agriculture, lumbering, and mining. |
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| An industry engaged in processing raw materials into finished products; manufacturing. |
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| The range of economic activities that provide services to industry. |
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| A traditional type of manufacturing in the pre- industrial recolution era, involving handmade goods of high quality manufactured by highly skilled artisans who resided in towns and cities. |
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| The tendency for industry to develop in a core-periphery pattern, enriching the industrialized countries of the core and impoverishing the less industrialized periphery. This term is also used to describe urban patterns in which suburban areas are enriched while the inner city is impoverished. |
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| A center of high-tech manufacturing and information-based industry. |
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| The decline of primary and secondary industry, accompanied by a rise in the service sectors of the industrial economy. |
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| Transnational Corporations |
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| Companies that have international production, marketing, and management facilities. |
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| The phase of a society characterized by the dominance of the service sector of economic activity. |
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| Transportation/Communication Services |
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| The range of economic activities that provide transport and communication to businesses. |
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| The range of economic activities required by producers of goods. |
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| An area along a limited access highway that houses offices and other services associated with high-tech industries. |
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| The range of economic activities that ficilitate the consumption of goods. |
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| Labor-Intensive Industries |
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| An industry for which labor costs represent a large porportion of total production costs. |
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| The physical separation of some economic activities from the main production facility, usually for the purpose of employing cheaper labor. |
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| The geographical area in which a product may be sold in a volume and at a price profitable to the manufacturer. |
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| Export Processing Zones (EPZs) |
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| Designated areas of countries where governments create conditions conducive to export-oriented production. |
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| That pronounced climatic warming of the Earth that has occured since about 1920 and particulary since the 1970's. |
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| A process in which the increased release of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, caused by industrial activity and deforestation, permits solar short-wave heat radiation to reach the Earth's surface but blocks long-wave outgoing radiation, causing a thermal imbalance and global heating. |
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| Responsible travel that does not harm ecosystems or the well-being of local people. |
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| Activists and organizations, including politicla parties, whose central conern is addressing environmental deterioration. |
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