GEOG 1280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: Population Geography, Spatial Analysis
17 May 2017
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In weberian analysis, the optimal location for a factory is largely dependent on the geographical availability of the raw material and on the weight loss characteristics of the raw material. Points of equal additional transport costs around the (weberian) minimum total transport cost point (sum or calculating aggregate of all isotims). Localized resource the resource is located at a particular place e. g. gold mine. Ubiquitous resource the resource is available everywhere e. g. air. Gross resource weight is lost in the manufacturing process e. g. it takes 8 tons of sugar beets to produce one ton of sugar. Pure resource there is no weight lost in the conversion of the raw material into a finished product e. g. water to soft drink or bottled water. Early in the age of affluence that followed world war ii, an american retailing analyst named victor. Over consumption by the world"s fortunate is an environmental problem unmatched in severity by anything but perhaps population growth.
