GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Industrial Revolution, World-Systems Theory, Walt Whitman Rostow
2 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Relative in absolute differences in quality of life and standard of living. The world is marked by spatial variations in terms of well being. We refer to these variations in well being in terms of levels of development. Development: a process of improvement in the material conditions of life. Implied here are notions of improvement, advancement, modernization, technology. Typically, we measure development in mostly economic terms (i. e. levels of gdp) Countries/regions are assessed by their environmental power, their accumulations of wealth. We also need to think of development in broader (more holistic) terms. We generally think about development as a continuum between 2 points third world vs. development south vs. north underdeveloped vs. developed less developed vs. more developed. Characteristics of the less developed world (ldw), in relation to the more developed world (mdw): higher poverty rates high mortality, higher fertility lower literacy less industrialization, etc.
