Economic geography. Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.
It represents a traditional subfield of the discipline of geography. However, in recent decades, many economists have also approached the field in ways more typical of the discipline of economics.[1] Economic geography has taken a variety of approaches to many different subject matters, including but not limited to the location of industries, economies of agglomeration (also known as "linkages"), transportation, international trade, economic development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, core-periphery theory, the economics of urban form, the relationship between the environment and the economy (tying into a long history of geographers studying culture-environment interaction), and globalization.
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Studying/Working away from Reading Year Abroad Fees. Geography and Economics of Brazil. A Neighborhood Isolated: How Geography and Economics Cut Off Key Services - Promise Neighborhoods. By Derek Lieu Editor's Note: This feature is part of an ongoing series.
As nonprofit leaders and volunteers in Washington's Parkside-Kenilworth neighborhood work to improve education and child-care services, they face an array of challenges. The neighborhood, wedged between Interstate-295 and the Anacostia River, is one of Washington's poorest. As the map below indicates, few services are available nearby, and the highway and river form geographic barriers that make it difficult for some residents to find doctors, social-service agencies, and grocery stores outside of the area.
But neighborhood leaders, with help from a federal Promise Neighborhoods grant, are working to bridge these gaps. The Promise Neighborhoods program is a federal effort to help communities design antipoverty projects modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone, in New York. Twenty-one projects, including the one in Washington, have received federal money to start Promise Neighborhoods efforts. How Geography Influences Economics Part 1: Geography Rules. How Geography Influences an Area's Economy Part 1: Geography Rules To a great extent, the geography of a settlement determines what kind of industry grows in that settlement.
Simply put, if you live on a river or the shore of an ocean, you're probably going to own a fish market or a trading company or something that uses the natural resource right under your nose. If you live next to an area that has a lot of coal deposits, you're probably going to work in a coal mine or in an industry that supports coal mining. History is full of examples of this: The Egyptians used the Nile River to ship their goods to other civilizations and, in turn, to receive goods from those other civilizations.
Why is this important? Why does a large part of the oil shipments come from the Middle East? Next page > Agriculture and Trade > Page 1, 2. How did ancient greece's geography affect it's economy.