Development & Flows
A spatial model that explains the location of industries based on transportation, labor, and agglomeration.
Weber's Least Cost
A country with a TFR of 1.2 is likely experiencing what trend?
population decline
This model shows how services cluster in hexagonal market areas.
Central Place Theory
A fragmented state is made up of…
discontinuous territory/islands
The practice of shifting cultivation is also known as...
slash-and-burn
milpa
The economic zone just outside the core in Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory.
semi-periphery
The visual tool used to represent population structure.
population pyramid
This rule states the nth largest city is 1/n the size of the largest.
Rank-Size Rule
Line that explains the developed North from the undeveloped South
Brandt Line
Large-scale commercial farming of one crop, often for export.
plantation
A policy where countries reduce barriers to encourage transnational business.
neoliberalism
Term for the area on Earth’s surface permanently inhabited by humans.
ecumene
The model that explains internal urban structure in North America with wedges.
Sector Model
A state with a centralized government and little local autonomy.
unitary state
The third major transformation in agriculture, focused on biotechnology.
The Green Revolution
The movement of business operations to another country for cheaper labor.
offshoring
The ratio of the working population to the non-working population.
dependency ratio
The controversial theory that geography determines cultural and economic success.
environmental determinism
Political control that spreads beyond borders via economic or cultural dominance.
neocolonialism
This model organizes agriculture in concentric rings around a city.
Von Thünen’s model
Zones in developing countries that offer incentives for foreign investment, often near ports.
Export Processing Zones (EPZs)
The theorist who revised Malthus’s ideas in the context of modern development.
Ester Boserup
neo-Malthusians
A model that shows disease patterns tied to economic development.
ETM
A group with a shared identity but no sovereign state.
stateless nation
The process by which traditional farming is replaced with mechanized commercial farming.
agribusiness