Chapter 5 Economic Geography

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agglomeration

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the grouping toghter of many firms from the same industry in a single area for a collective or cooperative use of infastricture and sharing of labor resources.

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ancillary activities

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economic activities that surround and support large scale industries such as shipping and food service.

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anthropocentric

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human centered in sustainable development anthrocentric refers to ideas that ficus soley on the needs if the people considering the creatures with whom we share the planet or ecosystem upon which we depend.

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backwash effect

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the negative effects one region that results from econimic growth within another region.

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break bulk point

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a location where largeb shipments of goods are broken up into smaller containers for delivery to local markets.

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brick and mortar business

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traditional business with actual stores in whch trade or retail occurs it does not exist soley on the internet.

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bulk gainng industries

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industries whose products weigh more after assembly than they did previously in their conservitive parts.such inustries tend to have production facilates close to their markets.

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bulk reducing industries

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industries whose final proucts weigh less than their constituent parts and whose processing facilaties ten to be located close to sources of raw materials.

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conglomerate corporation

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a firm that is compromised of many smaller firms that serve several different functions.

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core

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national or global reigons where economis power in terms of wealth innovation and advanced technology is concentrated.

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core-periphery model

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a model of the spatial structure of development in which underdevelope countries are defined by their depenence on a developed core reigon.

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cottage industry

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an indusrty in which the production of goos and services is based in homes opposed to factories.

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eglomeration

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the disperal of an inustry that formely existed in an establishe agglomeration.

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deindustrialization

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loss of industral activity in a reigon.

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development

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the process of economic growth expansion or realizaton or reigonal resource potential.

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e-commerce

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web-based ecomic activities.

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economic backwaters

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reigons that fail to gain from natural economic devlopment.

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ecotourism

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a form of tourism based on the enjoyment of scenic areas or natyral wonders that aims to provide an expierence of nature or culture in an enviromental sutainable way.

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export proccesing zone

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areas where goverments create favorable investments and trading conditions to attract export oriented inustries.

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fast world

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areas of the world usually the economic core that expiernce greater levels of connection due to high speed telecommunications and transportation technologies.