Term
|
Definition
| rainfall made sufficiency acidic by atmospheris pollution that it causes enviornmental harm, typically to forests and lakes. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| when several industries cluster in one city, and can rpovide support by sharing talents, services, and facilities. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| transfer of materials from a type of carrier to another |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| industries in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| industires in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a global economic system that is based in high-income nations with market economies. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| rapid economic and political change that transformed the country into a stable with democratizing political institutions, a growing economy, and an expanding web of nongovernment institutions. |
|
|
Term
| conglomerate corporations |
|
Definition
| most transnational corporations comprised of many smaller firms that produce car parts and other products that automoblies need. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| exodus of buisness from a crowded area |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| when employement in manufacturing as a share of total employment has fallen dramtically in the more developed countries. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| this analysis puts primary responsibility for global poverty on rich nations. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the decline of an activity or funstion with increasing distance from its point of origin. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology (industrial revolution) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a discipline that studies the impact of economic activities on the landscape and investigates reasons behind the locations of economic activities. |
|
|
Term
| export oriented industrialization |
|
Definition
| (four tiger's strategy) to directly integrate their economies into the global economy by concentrating on economic production to find a place in international markets |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| neither resource or market-oriented |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| is based on the notion distance usually requires |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country during a year, dividing the GDP by the total population creates the GDP per capita. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a series of impraements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| services that support economic activities |
|
|
Term
| international division of labor |
|
Definition
| when some components of products are made in one country and others in another |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Japan's dominant region of industrialization. |
|
|
Term
| labor intensive industries |
|
Definition
| when the cost of labor is in consideration |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| explains the locational pattern of ecnomic activities by identifiying factors that influence this pattern. |
|
|
Term
| locational interdependence theory |
|
Definition
| the influence on a firm's locational decision by locations chosen by its competitors. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| produced good primarily for consumers in the U.S., and a number of U.S. companies have established plants in the zone to transfrom imported, duty-free components or raw materials into finished industrial parts, from mexico to USA. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a remarkable governemnt-sponsered campaign for modernization and colonization |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| (westernization model) model that demonstrates in how to develop a country. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| those that experienced industrialization |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| those that have not really experienced industrialization. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| ( North American Free Trade Agreement) a treaty signed in 1995 by Mexico, USA, and Canada, which eliminates barriers (most tariffs) to free trade among the three countires. |
|
|
Term
| new international division of labor |
|
Definition
| the transfer of some types of jobs, espacially those requiring low-paid, less-skilled workers, from more developed to less developed countries. |
|
|
Term
| newly industrializing country |
|
Definition
| a country whose level of economic development ranks it somewhere between the developing and first-world classifications |
|
|
Term
| Northeast District (China) |
|
Definition
| China's earliest industrial heartland |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| countries that border the Pacific Ocean on their eastern shores. |
|
|
Term
| post industrial societies |
|
Definition
| countries where most people are no longer employed in industry. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| part of the economy that draws raw materials from the natural enviornment. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| part of the economy that transforms raw materials into manufacturing goods. |
|
|
Term
| primary industry/secondary industry |
|
Definition
| industry that focuses on the secondary and primary sector. |
|
|
Term
| proven reserve, potential reserve |
|
Definition
| proven reserve: the amount of a resource remaining in discovered deposits. Potential reserve: the amount of a resource in deposits not yet indentified but thought to exist. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| often seen as a subset of the tertiary sector. It includes service jobs concerned with research and development, management, and administration, and processing and disseminating information. |
|
|
Term
| Rostow, W.W., Rostow's Stages |
|
Definition
| the stages of modernization: 1) traditional stage, 2) take-off stage, 3) drive to technological maturity, 4) High mass consumption |
|
|
Term
| Secondary industrial region |
|
Definition
| where agglomeration is somewhat less, but still significant |
|
|
Term
| single market manufacturers |
|
Definition
| maufacturers that produce goods for one type of market. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| particular to a geographic location and focus on varying costs of land, labor, and capital. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| describes the reducation in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| (SEZ) is a geographic region that is designed to export goods and provide employment. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| suggests that business owners can juggle expenses, as ling as labor, land rents, transportation, and other costs don't all go up at one time |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the level of development that can be maintained in a country without depleting resources to the extent that future generations will be unable to achieve a comparable level of development |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| is the part of the economy that involves services rather than goods |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| or conglomeration of trade among countires within a region |
|
|
Term
| transnational corporations |
|
Definition
| or companies that operate factories in countries ither than the ones in which they are headquartered. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| workers are more productive in MDCs than in LDCs, and it can be measured by the vlaue added by each worker |
|
|
Term
| variable revenue analysis |
|
Definition
| firm's ability to capture a market that will earn it more customers and money then its competitiors. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| dependency theorist, Wallerstein traced economic inequality among nations to the colonial era. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| developed a model for the location of secondary industries |
|
|
