GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Food Miles, Distance Decay, Subsistence Agriculture
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Spatial aspects of economy: how people earning a living in different areas, how livelihoods systems vary from place to place, how economic activities are spatially related. Economic sectors (cid:856). (cid:498)white-collar(cid:499) services: quaternary sectors those services that rely on information gathering and sharing. Information technology services, research and development, consulting services, etc. (cid:855). (cid:498)service-sector(cid:499) services: Tertiary sectors activities consist of those businesses that provide services. Store clerks to auto mechanics to lawyers and doctors nearly anyone who does not actually make, extract, or grow something. (cid:854). (cid:498)value-added(cid:499) services: Secondary sectors activities add value to raw materials trough manufacturing, processing, or construction. This is where actual good are produced: harvest or extraction: Primary sectors activities involve the extraction of raw materials (mining), the gathering of plants and animals (forestry, fishing, hunting), and domestication of plants and animals (agriculture). Usually significant value-added activities (but still considered primary sector)