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32 Cards in this Set
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Development
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a pattern everybody knows exists
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Hows development described?
4 different methods |
1. Incomes method
2. resources.wealth method 3. political-affiliation 4. teleological |
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Incomes method
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"World Banks"
high income upper-middle income lower-middle income low income |
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resources/wealth method
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core-periphery
haves-have nots |
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Teleological method
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developed
underdeveloped |
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Implications of development
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dependency theory
debt service neocolonialism underdevelopment |
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Radiation
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solar-max energy at (gamma)=0.48
terrestrial- max energy at (gamma)=10 |
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Population
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size doesnt determine region
density distribution education change growth-decline urbanization- rustification aging-"youthening" |
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Enviornmental determinism
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environment governs actions
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environmental probabilism
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environment influences actions
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ethnicity
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ethnicity=culture+(racial)heritage
flexible fabricated/constructed ethnicity assimilated ethnicity |
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latitude/longitudinal, parallels, meridians
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prime meridian-Grenich England
international date line degress/seconds/minutes |
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Tropics
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Tropic of Cancer 23 30'N
Tropic of Capricorn 23 30'S |
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Circles
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Arctic Circle 66 30'N
Antarctic Circle 66 30'S Great Circle |
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absolute location
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latitude/longitude
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relative location
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in relation to something
":Middle East"- source of great confusion "Eastern Europe" |
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microfinance (microbanking)
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provision of financial services to poor clients
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Neo-malthusians
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limited resources keep populations in check and reduce economic growth, growth will increase at a rate that eventually the earth wont be able to support
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technocentrists
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futurists who derive pleasure from living and working in midst of change
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cornucopians
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a futurist who believes that continued progress and provision of material items for mankind can be met by continued advances in technology
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Kyoto treaty
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treaty on climate change
38 more developed countries reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 5% by 2012 |
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Bandung conference
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meeting of Asian and African states
organized by Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan April 18-24, 1955 |
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Spirit of Bandung
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call for peaceful coexistence, independence and building solidarities towards weak
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stateless nations
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a group, usually ethnic group, is a nation and entitled to its own state, a nation state, for that nation
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multinational states
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tend to be unstable and lead to devolution
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magnetic declination
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angle between the local magnetic field (N on compass) and true north
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hydrologic cycle
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condensation-->infiltration-->runoff-->evaporation
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tropical systems
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cyclone, typhoons, hurricanes
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precipitation
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rain, snow, etc.
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obscuration
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fog, haze, blowing sand
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circulation systems
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anticyclones, cyclones
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pressure motion
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highs->anticyclones
lows->cyclone |