Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carbon Footprint, Spatial Analysis, Exchange Rate
10 Dec 2018
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Is geography dead or alive? pros/cons of globalization. More efficiency because countries do not need to produce everything. Makes people more accepting at other cultures and countries because of more. Local businesses lose profits to multinational corporations. Language and cultures can become lost if not used. Space: a real extent, used in both absolute and relative forms. Relative: perceptual; socially produced, subject to continuous change. Absolute: unchanging; reference to an arbitrary mathematical grid system. Location involves direction, but space does not. Meanings and values we associate with it identity/context associated. Areal groups of complex phenomena found on earth. Eg. north america, south america set by functional borders. Vernacular: area identified because perceptions inside/outside held by people. Eg. silicon valley - deemed a region because of what it produced, but there is no actual border. They apply in some cases, but not as often or as significantly as they used to before the improvement of technologies.
