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| forms when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the atmosphere by burning fossils fuels |
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| If several industries cluster in one city they can provide support by sharing talents, services, and facilities. |
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| Transfer of cargo from one type of carrier to another, from ships to trains and trucks and vise versa |
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| Such as the North American copper industry, usually locate factorizes close to raw material because the raw material are heavier and bulkier than the finished product. |
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| Such as most canned food and beverages products, factory locations are usually determined by accessibility to the market |
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| A global economic system that is based in high-income nations with market economies |
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| Conglomerate Corporations |
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| Compromised of many smaller firms that support the overall industry. |
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| The exodus of businesses from a crowded area. |
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| During the past few decades employment in manufacturing as a share of total employment has fallen dramatically in the more developed countries a phenomenon widely |
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| This analysis puts primary responsibility for global poverty on rich nations. |
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| Largely because pf the fiction of distance industries are more likely to serve markets of nearby places than those far away. |
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| The process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of Knowledge and technology, has occurred as a result of industrialization |
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| A discipline that studies the impact of economic activities on the landscape and investigates reasons behind the locations of economic. |
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| Export-Oriented Industrialization |
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| A strategy that seeks to directly intergrate to countty's economy into the global economy by concentrating on economic production that can find a place in international markets. |
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| Neither resource or market oriented |
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| including coal, petroleum, and natural gas are residues of plants and animals that were buried millions of years ago. |
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| the increased in earths temperature caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuel. |
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| A measure of the average persons contribution to generation to generating a county's wealth in a year. |
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| Is the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country during a year. |
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| Industrialization Revolution |
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| Began this process in England during the late 19th century. |
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| Services that support economic activities. |
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| International Division of Labor |
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| In which some components of products are made in one country and others in another. |
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| Japan's dominant region of industry is the Kanto Plain, which includes TOKYO and other nearby cities and suburbs that form a huge metropolitan |
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| such as fiber-spinning, weaving or cutting and sewing fabric into clothing |
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| Explains the locational pattern of economic activities by identifying factors that influence this pattern. |
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| Locational Independence theory |
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| The influence on a firm location decision by locations chosen by its competitors. |
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| district have produced goods primarily for consumers in the U.S and a number of U.S companies have established plant in the zone to transfer imported duty-free components or raw materials into finished industrial products. |
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| Meji Restoration modernization model |
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| A remarkable government- sponsored campaign for modernization and colonization. |
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| A treaty signed by 1995 by Mexico, the united states and Canada which eliminated barriers including most tariffs to free trade among the three countries |
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| New International division country |
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| a process that keeps global inequalities in place, discourages new industries form developing in LDC and presnets wealth from flowing MDC'S to LDC'S |
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| In recent years other part of the pacific rim continues that border the Pacific Ocean on their eastern shores, have also experienced industrialized |
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| Primary economic activities |
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| Primary economic activities are those activities where natural resources are extracted from the earth |
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| Is the part of the economy that draws raw materials from the natural environment |
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| Develops around the location of natural resources such as the industrial belt in the British midlands. |
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| Develops which is less dependent on resource location. Raw materials may be transferred to the factories for manufacture. |
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| Just how much petroleum, coal, and natural gas remains on earth is uncertain. Energy deposits that have been discovered are called proven reserve |
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| These may be measured with reasonable accuracy. |
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Modernization theory hold that economic prosperity is open to all countries According to Rostow, modernization occurs in four stages:
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| Secondary Economic activities |
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| Secondary industrial region |
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| Develops which is less dependent on resource location |
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| Single Market manufactures |
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| clothing manufacturing shipping to New York city also cluster near their markets. |
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| describes the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation system |
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| foreign inventions us allowed and capitalist ventures are encouraged |
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| suggest that business owners can juggle expenses as long as labor land rents transpiration and other cost don't all go up at times |
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| basic premise is that people living today should not impair the ability of futures generations to meet their needs |
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| Is the part of the economic that involves services rather than goods |
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| conglomerations of trade among countries withing a region |
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| Transnational Corporations |
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| companies that operate factories in countries other than the ones in which they are headquarters |
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| The value added in manufacturing may be figured by subtracting the cost of raw materials and energy from the gross value of the product |
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| Variable Revenue Analysis |
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| Or the firms ability to capture a market that will earn more customers and money than its competitors |
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| The big break through came with the steam engine invented by James,Watt which allowed much more flexible use of energy to drive new machines. |
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| developed a model for the location of secondary industries |
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