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Von Thunen Model

Von Thunen Model. Patterns of Land Use. Von Thünen Model. Von Thünen Model What farmers produce varies by distance from the town, with livestock raising farthest from town. Cost of transportation governs use of land. First effort to analyze the spatial character of economic activity.

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Von Thunen Model

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  1. Von Thunen Model Patterns of Land Use

  2. Von Thünen Model Von Thünen Model What farmers produce varies by distance from the town, with livestock raising farthest from town. Cost of transportation governs use of land. First effort to analyze the spatial character of economic activity.

  3. Von Thünen Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783-1850) wrote Der Isolierte Staat (The Isolated State) which is the foundation of location theory. Noted how crops near Rostock, Germany changed with no change in soil-mapped the pattern With terrain, soils and rainfall the same he created the ringed-pattern Noted that transportation costs governed land use

  4. Von Thünen Model

  5. Application of Von Thünen Model Geographer Lee Liu studied the spatial pattern of agriculture production in China. Found: - farmers living in a village farm both lands close to the village and far away intensively - methods varied spatially – resulting in land improvement (by adding organic material) close to village and land degradation (lots of pesticides and fewer conservation tactics) farther from village.

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