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31 Cards in this Set
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Spatial Interaction |
The closer together phenomena are the easier it is for interaction to take place and the more similar they are
assumed to decline with increasing distance
term geographers use to represent the interdependence between geographic areas |
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Spatial Interaction Factors |
Complementarity Transferability Intervening Opportunity |
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Complementarity |
One place has a supply and another place has a demand
effective supply and demand is important, not just differences in attributes |
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Transferabilitiy |
An expression of mobility of a commodity
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Transferability Based Upon: |
Characteristics and value of a product
Distance over which it must be moved
Ability of a commodity to bear costs of movement |
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Intervening Opportunity |
serves to reduce supply/demand interactions that might develop between distant complementary areas |
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Measuring Interaction |
Distance Decay
Movement Biases |
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Distance Decay |
Decreased activity or function as distance increases |
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Movement Biases |
The pattern of spatial interaction that develops for whatever reason inevitably affects the conditions under which future interactions will occur
path in the snow |
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Movement Biases Components |
Distance Biases
Direction Biases
Network Biases |
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Individual Activity Space |
Territoriality Activity Space |
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Terrioriality |
Emotional attachment to and defense of "home ground" |
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Activity Space |
An area an individual moves freely through on the rounds of regular activity
1. Stage in Life 2. Mobility 3. Opportunities |
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Mental Mapping |
An exercise which demonstrates a individuals perception of the space around them and how they interact within that space |
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Pull factors |
are presumed positive attractions of a migration destination |
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Critical Distance |
Distance beyond which cost, effort, means, and perception play an overriding role in our willingness to travel |
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Migration Field |
An area or areas that dominates a locale's in- and out- migration patterns |
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Place Utility |
The concept of ___________helps us understand the decision making process that potential voluntary migrants undergo |
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Contagious Diffusion |
The spread of a concept, a practice, or an article from one area to others through contact and/or the exchange of information |
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Hierachial Diffusion |
The spread of innovation up or down a hierarchy of places |
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Countermigration |
The return of migrants to the regions which they had earlier emigrated |
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Chain Migration |
The process by which migration movements from a common home area to a specific destination are sustained by links of friendship or kinship between first movers and later followers |
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Channelized Migration |
The tendency for migration to flow between areas that are socially or economically allied by past migration patterns, by economic trade considerations, or some other affinity |
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Globalization |
The increasing interconnection of all parts of the world as the full range of social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental processes and patterns of change becomes international |
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Hierarchial Migration |
The tendency for individuals to move from small places to larger ones |
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Human Interaction |
The communication and interdependencies between people. |
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Migration |
The permanent relocation of an individual or a group to a new, usually distant place of residence. |
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Push Factor |
A characteristic of a region that contributes to the dissatisfaction of residents and impels their migration |
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Spatial Diffusion |
The outward spread of a substance, a concept, a practice, or a population from its point of origin |
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Step Migration |
A migration in which an eventual long-distance relocation is undertaken in stages, as in from a village to a small town to a city |
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Transnational Corporation (TNC) |
A large business organization operating in at least two national economies |
