 | Economic Geography
After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:
- Distinguish economic activities as primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, or quinary and classify occupations into each of the categories.
- Define and differentiate among subsistence, commercial, and planned economies.
- Enumerate the characteristics of intensive and extensive subsistence agriculture.
- Define the Green Revolution and list its costs and benefits.
- Discuss the types and location of commercial agriculture.
- Explain von Thunen's model of agricultural land use and the mechanism by which land uses are allocated to different locations.
- Describe the models that have been proposed to explain and govern the location of industry.
- Compare and contrast Fordist production methods with just-in-time and flexible systems.
- Understand the concept of comparative advantage and how it relates to international development.
- List the major manufacturing regions of the world and enumerate the locational factors which led to their importance.
- Detail the rise of high technology industries and explain their associated locational considerations.
- Explain the importance of service industries in world trade.
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