GGR207H5 : Economic Geography and Agriculture
Document Summary
ultimately, production is controlled by economic factors of demand, whether that demand is expressed through a free market mechanism, government instruction, or the consumption requirements of a single family producing for its own needs. regionally varying environmental, cultural, technological, political, and market conditions add spatial details to more generalized ways of classifying the world"s productive work. one approach to that categorization is to view economic activity as ranged along a continuum of both increasing complexity of product or service and increasing distance from the natural environment. Seen from that perspective, a small number of distinctive stages of production and service activities may be distinguished. Primary activities are those that harvest or extract some- thing from the earth. Secondary activities are those that add value to materials by changing their form or combining them into more useful. Beginning of the production cycle, where humans are in closest contact with the resources and potentialities of the environment.
