After reading this chapter, you should be able to: appreciate the relevance to businesspeople of four elements of geography:
(1) location, (2) topography, (3) climate, and (4) natural
resources understand the importance of a country's location in political and
trade relationships understand how surface features contribute to economic, cultural,
political, and social differences among nations and among regions of a single
country comprehend the importance of inland waterways and outlets to the sea recognize that climate exerts a broad influence on business understand why managers must monitor changes in the discovery and
the use of mineral resources and energy sources understand why managers must be alert to changes in a nation's infrastructure appreciate the impact of industrial disasters such as the Alaskan
oil spill and the Bhopal accident on global and multinational firms | 
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