GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Pastoralism, Soil Fertility, Essential Products
18 Dec 2017
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The geographies of primary economic activities (agriculture, etc. ) North america"s early economic success: abundance of natural resources. E. g. agricultural land, timber, fish stocks, etc. Essential products for food, clothing and shelter. Spatial and temporal changes to these key primary economic activities: agricultural, beginnings of settlement in north america: dominant form of economic activity a. i. 1881: 48% of the canadian labour force: decline since industrialization in the mid-19th century b. i. Today: small proportion of employment and gdp: major food production economy c. i. Declining reserves/stocks: mining, an important part of the economy for certain areas of north america a. i. a. ii. a. iii. a. iv. a. v. Great plain/ prairies (fracking/ oilsands: fishing, overfishing have reduced fishable stocks in most areas a. i. Fishing, and aquaculture, is still key industry for some areas, e. g. alaska, B. c, gulf of mexico, east coast, etc: forestry, a key resource for extraction in part of north america a. i.
