GGR107H1 Lecture Notes - Brundtland Commission, Global Industrial, Walt Whitman Rostow
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Lecture 6- the global industrial food system part 2. 1949- truman made a speech, talking about the emergence of the concept of underdevelopment, which was presenting a handicap and a threat to other prosperous areas. There was a need for more scientific tech to fight underdevelopment. The developed/underdeveloped, first world/third world, global north/south terminology came from the cold war. There is a binary, a duality between the two- if it is underdeveloped, then it isn t developed. They assume there s a homogeneity between the two groups. Development: the use of resources to relieve poverty and improve the standard of living of a nation; the means by which a traditional, low-technology society is changed into a modern, high-technology society, with a corresponding increase in incomes . Many geographers believe that true development includes improvements in social justice (oxford university press geography dictionary)
