Chp 12 Human geo
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| Cottage industries | show 🗑
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| Economies of scale | show 🗑
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| Industrial revolution | show 🗑
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| show | An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port.
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| show | The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context.
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| show | A set of interconnected nodes without a center.
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| show | Benefit a service or product receives by being the first to market
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| show | Area to which an innovation diffuses and from which the innovation diffuses more broadly.
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| Fordist | show 🗑
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| show | The merging of businesses that serve different steps in one commodity chain.
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| show | Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. The von Thünen model is an example.
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| show | Cost advantages created when similar businesses cluster in the same location. For example, car manufacturers cluster in a city or region to tap into a skilled labor force and access infrastructure, services, and
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| Least cost theory | show 🗑
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| show | Difficulty in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance.
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| show | Where two or more modes of transportation meet (including air, road, rail, barge, and ship).
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| show | Economic system where people, corporations, and states produce goods and services and trade them on the world market with the goal of making a profit.
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| show | Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.
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| show | The ability of corporations to employ labor from around the world, made possible by the compression of time and space through innovations in communication and transportation systems.
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| show | Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks.
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| Just-in-time delivery | show 🗑
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| Spatial fix | show 🗑
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| Node | show 🗑
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| Commodity chain | show 🗑
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| Outsourcing | show 🗑
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| show | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.
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| show | Tapping into companies that specialize in production around the world to manufacture goods.
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| show | Pattern of flows from raw material to global product to disposal or reuse of products that shows all the places connected through production.
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| show | States with growing industrial and service economies and an increasing presence in global trade.
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| Break of bulk point | show 🗑
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| show | Decline in industry in a region or economy. Happens when companies move industry to other regions or mechanize production.
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| show | A region in the northeastern United States that once had an extensive manufacturing industry but has been deindustrialized during the post-Fordist era.
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| High-technology corridor | show 🗑
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