Economic Geography

1. Economic Geography Farming Manufacturing Service Technology

2. Economic Geography • Economic Geography is the study of how people earn their living • How livelihood systems vary by region • How economic activities are spatially interrelated and linked

3. Factors Determining Economic Geography 1. Physical Environment: • What can be grown in a region • What minerals in the region 2. Cultural Considerations: Culturally base food preference

4. Factors Determining Economic Geography 3. Technological Developments: Technology changed how a region produces goods. 4. Political Decisions: What governments think is important to grow or produce. 5. Economic Factors: Demand for goods

5. Categories of Economic Activities • PrimaryEconomic Activities: People that harvest or extract something from the Earth • Secondary Economic Activities: The manufacturing or processing of materials • Tertiary Economic Activities: Providing a service to or for someone else • Quaternary Economic Activities: People working in activities that take more education and skills than in a tertiary activity.

6. Primary Economic Activity • Working directly with the Earth. Examples are Farming, mining, herding, hunting and gathering and forestry

7. Agriculture Commercial Farming: Large farms run for profit growing mostly one or two crops Subsistence Farming: growing just enough food to survive, not to sell

8. Grazing/Livestock Subsistence raising of livestock Commercial raising of livestock

9. Mining and Forestry Mining: Working directly with the Earth Resources Forestry: Cutting down of trees for wood

10. Secondary Economic Activities Manufacturing: Creating a product Steel Processing: Using natural resources to create a product steel

11. Tertiary Economic Activity Store clerk: Providing a service not producing a product Office workers: Provide a service in a business

12. Quaternary Economic Activity Computer Technician: A person with a degree in computers providing a service Lawyers providing legal service

13. Developed countries: Developed Countries have Good educational systems Access to good health care service Manufacturing, service, technological industries in country Most people live in cities Few people work in agriculture Access to modern telecommunication networks Population growth rates low

14. Developing Countries: Developing Countries have • Good educational system, but not available to all people • Countries becoming more industrialized, but with lower wages • More people involved in agriculture • Access to good health care for most people • Most people live in cities • Access to modern telecommunication network for most people. • A slowing down population growth rate

15. Less Developed Countries Less Developed Countries have • Poor access to good health care • Limited access to good education • Little if any industry found in the country • Most people involved in agriculture • Limited access to modern telecommunication network • High population growth rate

16. Economic Geography Questions • What is the definition of economic geography? • What do geographers study when studying economic geography? • Describe the factors determining economic geography? • Describe the 4 categories of Economic Activity and give an example of each • Describe the 3 categories of Economic development? Give an example of a country that fits into each category

17. Economic Geography Questions 6. What is the difference between subsistence farming and commercial farming?