GEOG 1HB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: World-Systems Theory, Subsistence Agriculture, Multinational Corporation
12 Dec 2018
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Chapter 6 terms only hope for the best. Colonization: the policy of a state or people seeking to establish and maintain authority over another state or people. Dependence: in political contexts, a relationship in which one state or people is dependent on and therefore dominated by another state or people. Dependency theory: a theory that centres on the relationship between dependence and underdevelopment. Third world = previous colony now under own development. Malnutrition: a condition caused by a diet lacking some food necessary for health. Food shortages can be explained by 3 key factors: overpopulation, physical or human circumstances. Internally displaced persons (idps) are people who flee their homes but remain within their home country. Pandemic: a term used to designate diseases with very wide distribution ( a whole country or even the world); epidemic diseases have more limited distributions.
