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Industrialization & Economic Development (12-17%)
Key concepts in industrialization and development
7.2
Growth and diffusion of industrialization
1. Changing role of energy and technology
2. Industrial Revolution
3. Evolution of economic cores and peripheries
4. Geographic critiques of models of economic localization, industrial location, economic development, and world systems
7.3
Contemporary patterns and impacts of Industrialization and development
1. Spatial organization of the world economy
2. Variations in levels of development
3. Deindustrialization and economic restructuring
4. Pollution, health, and quality of life
5. Industrialization, environmental change, and sustainability
6. Local development initiatives: government policies
Unit VII Videos, Links, Articles
YOUR CELL PHONE BATTERY - This is pretty awesome!
http://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/compare/united-states/afghanistan
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/
Unit VII - Google Presentation
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE VIDEOS!! WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED!
DEMOGRAPHIC SNAPSHOT
Rubenstein 9 Key Issue Jigsaw
Kuby, Harner, & Gober:7, Rags & Riches
Is a family of three whose father and mother make minimum wage for 39 hours a week for a year above or below the poverty line?
Hourly salary x hours per week x 52 weeks = Gross Salary
Gross salary x .30 (roughly 30% taken out for taxes) = Net Salary
MEASURES OF DEVELOPMENT: APHG STUDENTS MAKE THE BEST MODELS
1.WALLERSTEIN'S WORLD SYSTEMS THEORY/CORE-PERIPHERY/DEPENDENCY THEORY
2.ROSTOW'S STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
3.HOTELLING LOCATIONALAL INTERDEPENDENCE/ PRINCIPLE OF MINMUM
DIFFERENTIATION (LINEAR CITY MODEL)
How does a simple T-shirt get made? To find out, we decided to make one -- and track every step of production. It all started in Mississippi. Or, if you go back far enough, in a seed lab. The full story is here.
Links to the videos:
Part I: Cotton Part II: Machines Part III: People Part IV: Boxes Part V: You
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