Unit 5
Political areas of one country separated from the main body by another country
Corporate commercial agriculture production
What is Agribusiness?
The framework of laws/codes that regulate where and what type of development can occur.
What is Zoning?
When a company shifts the location of a service or production of a part to a location abroad.
What is Offshoring?
Organization that coordinates and unifies petroleum policies to ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers
Who is OPEC?
Areas with countries that have a varying degree of freedom from central government.
What are Autonomous Regions?
Obtaining a relatively small amount of agricultural product from an area due to lower inputs
What is Extensive Agriculture?
A Hypercity, an epithet that refers to massive sprawling conurbations of more than 20 million people!
What is a Metacity?
Point where a product is transferred from one shipping method to another
What is a Break of Bulk Point?
Explains which crops farmers choose to grow or livestock to raise based on their distance to the market in which those crops/animals will be sold.
What is Von Thunen?
The meeting of European diplomats that created the concept of the modern nation state.
What is is the Treaty of Westphalia?
Governments providing lump sums of money to certain farmers for producing a particular crop
What are subsides?
The relative location and importance of a place in its larger regional or spatial system
What is situation?
When industries clump together in the same area instead of being spread out over space to share costs such as electrical lines, roads, pollution control, etc.
What is Agglomeration?
An urban settlement model that attempts to explain the spatial distribution of cities
What is the Central Place Theory?
Collective name for the 14 former country's of the Soviet Union that the modern Russian federation heavily attempts to influence
What is Russia's "Near Abroad"?
Breeding, raising, and harvesting of fish and shellfish in contained, condensed water environments
What is Aquaculture?
Urban “Lifestyle Trend” that focuses on the desire for urban living that maximizes convenience; more walkability, shorter commuting times, amenities within walking distance, multiple forms of public transportation, access to green space
What is New Urbanism?
Describes the expansion of an area’s economic base as a result of the basic and non-basic industries located there.
What is the Multiplier Effect?
Regional Urban Model that incorporations aspects of the Hoyt Sector Model as well as the Burgess Concentric Zone Model
What is the Latin America city Model?
Examples include The World Trade Organization, European Union, USMCA, United Nations as well as the International Monetary Fund
What are Supranational Organizations?
Lack of knowledge of where the next meal will come from: difficulty accessing ANY food.
What is food insecurity?
New development of vacant or undeveloped land within an existing urban community, and is enclosed by other types of development: Most often used in the creation of residential structures
What is Infill Development?
Dividing work up into different activities that can be divided and possibly automated and outsourced or offshored to take advantage of specialization, labor rates, and comparative advantages.
What is the Disaggregation of Labor?
Theorist who tried to explain the Spatial Distribution of Factories and industrial production
Who is Alfred Weber?