GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Post-Fordism, Factor Endowment, Kondratiev Wave
9 Jan 2019
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Review session: section 3, population dynamics: what is demography and why does it matter, observe key causes, population structure. Population policies (pro and antinatal): migration: ravenstein"s push and pull. ~more important than international migration: natural resources: renewable and non-renewable. Are we running out: 1972 limits to growth; ~oil as critical resource (available reserves), and peak oil. Energy futures will remain with fossil fuel syndrome (renewable growing quickly and future hope for fusion) Section 4: geography of industrial revolution: routes of industrial revolution and its key features, waves of industrialization: first: britain and phases in britain ~cornwall and lancashire, second: western and central europe. Third: intermediate europe and north america: role of technological innovations in belgium, france, and germany. Important role of regional institutions (banking) in facilitating ir: 20th century: long wave of economic development (kondratiev vs kuznets wave), regulation theory: regime of accumulation all about economic activities; and mode of social.
