GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Walt Whitman Rostow, World-Systems Theory, Industrial Revolution
25 Jan 2018
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Lecture 6: globalization ii - a divided world. Development: a process in improvement in the material conditions of life. The world is marked by striking spatial variations in terms of well-being; where we refer to these variations in well being in terms of level of development. These spatial variations in well being exist at numerous spatial scales w. Typically we think of development in mostly economic terms w. Countries are assessed by their economic power, their accumulations of wealth. We also need to think of development in broader (more holistic) terms w w w. We generally think about development as a continuum between two points w w w w w. Question: is the world really divided in such a binary way ( or are there areas of grey in between) Characteristics of the less developed world in relation to the more developed. Higher morality, higher fertility w w w w. Following the major de-colonization movements of the 1960s: w w.
