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What is Nationalism? |
- Political movement focused on independence or abandonment of policies that are viewed as a threat by some to national sovereignty or nation al culture.- Countries helping |
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What do Greenpeace stand by? What are their campaigns?? |
- Climate change WILL affect everyone.- We are addicted to 19th/20th century energy.Campaigns- Stop climate change.- Save the arctic.- Defend oceans.- Protect forests.- Eliminate toxins.- Work for peace |
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What is Cultural Commodification? |
- Ideas and objects and traits of culture becoming part of capitalist systems. |
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Issues with LICs: |
- Hyperurbanisation: uncontrollable urbanisation- Suburbanisation: wealthy choosing to live on the city edge to escape poverty, crime, congestion. |
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Issues with HICs: |
- Counter Urbanisation: movement from urban areas to rural areas.- Reurbanisation: regeneration of urban areas that have declined over previous years. |
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What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? |
Measure of financial value of goods and services produced in a territory. Often divided by population size to produce per capita figure for purpose of making comparisons. |
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What are Commodities? |
Valuable raw materials e.g. fuels, food and materials have always been traded between nations. |
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Steam Power Transport Innovation: |
- Britain leader in 1800s using steam tech.- Steam ships/trains moved goods/armies along trade routes to Asia and Africa |
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Jet Aircraft Trans Innovation: |
- Boeing 747 1960s made international travel commonplace.- Cheap flights sector expansion: easyJet brough flight to the masses in rich areas. |
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Container Shipping Trans Innovation: |
- 200 million container movements happen a year.- Described as 'backbone' of global economy since 1950s. |
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What are Intermodal containers? |
Large capacity storage units that can be transported long distances via shipping and rail without freight being taken out container. |
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What is Foreign Direct Investment? |
A financial injection made by a TNC into the economy of a place, to make new facilities or to acquire/merge with firms already based there. |
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What is Placelessness? |
The idea that a landscape could be anywhere, as it lacks uniqueness.- Leads to clone town effect. |
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What is sense of place? |
Subjective emotional attachment to a place. |
