Unit 6: Industrialization and Development

Unit Outline

Industrialization and Development
A. Key concepts in industrialization and development
B. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
    a. Changing role of energy and technology
    b. Industrial Revolution
    c. Evolution of economic cores and peripheries
    d. Geographic critiques of models of economic localization, industrial location, economic development and world systems
C. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development
    a. Spatial organization of the world economy
    b. Variations in levels of development
    c. Deindustrialization and economic restructuring
    d. Pollution, health and quality of life
    e. Industrialization, environmental change, and sustainability
    f. Local development initiatives; government policies

Assignments

What does one trillion dollars look like?
What does 11 trillion dollars look like? (2009 U.S. national debt)
U.S. Budget: You Fix the Problem

homework

videos/extra resources

Rostow's Theory of Industrial Development
GDI/GEM Index by Country
UN Human Development Report
Weber's Least Cost Theory
Hotelling's Model
World Wall--World Population Data Sheet
World Wall--US Census Bureau Population Pyramids
World Wall-CIA World Factbook
World Wall--UN Human Development Indicators
Gapminder
BRICS Plan for the Future
World Gender Gap Index
China has Eye's on Greenland's Natural Resources
Mapping the World (Cartograms)