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