Miscellaneous
A portion of geographic space, which is unique in some way. These can be compared according to their cultural or physical diversity, or disparities in wealth or resources.
Place
PPP
Purchasing power parity
Countries that have begun to experience higher rates of economic growth, often due to rapid industrialization.
Countries that have begun to experience higher rates of
A term used to describe the polarization of the world’s population into ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’.
Development gap
Why may there be popular support for governments being allowed to ‘snoop’ online.
Paedophiles, terrorists etc.
The movement of people, goods and ideas within and across geographic space.
Spatial interactions
PPPP
Place, process, power, possility.
The practice of using capitalism, globalisation and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country instead of the previous colonial methods of direct military control (imperialism) or indirect political control.
Neo-colonial(ism)
Definition of human development
Human development generally means the ways in which a country seeks to progress economically and to improve the quality of life for its inhabitants.
Definition of ‘black swan’ events.
These are ‘unthinkable’ high-impact, hard-to-predict and rare occurrences.
The ability to influence and affect change or equilibrium at different scales.
Power
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The skilful combined use of both hard power (getting your own way by using force) and soft power (the power of persuasion) in international relations.
Smart power
A ‘roadmap’ for human development by setting out priorities for action.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Risk
A real or perceived threat against any aspect of social or economic life.
Places can be identified at a variety of geographic levels, from local to national to regional to global.
Scale
BRICS
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa
An Index of Globalization
KOF (measures economic, political and social globalization).
The Human Development Index (HDI)
Life expectancy at birth
Mean years of schooling (Years that a 25-year-old person or older has spent in schools)
Expected years of schooling (Years that a 5-year-old child will spend with his education in his whole life Gross national income (GNI) at purchasing power parity per capita
Parallel to the risk of hacking and identity threats, ICT also threatens personal freedoms in what is sometimes described as ‘the rise of the surveillance society’.
What did George Orwell call such societies in his book "1984"?
‘Big brother’ societies
temporal
relating to time
MINTs
Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) definition of globalization.
‘The growing interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows, and through the more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology.’
Social entrepreneurship approaches are a way of trying to meet human development goals, which draws on business techniques and principles, like this social entrepreneur and provider of microloans.
Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.
The founder of WikiLeaks (2006).
Julian Assange