GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Quinary
31 May 2018
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May 28, 2018- Lecture 7B
Introduction to the Geographies of Economic Activity
Economic Base: the set of economic activities upon which a community relies in order to
generate income from elsewhere
- Broad and varied vs. narrowly focused and dominated
- In many cases, the economic base gets reflected in the identity to the
community/region
o E.g. otor-ity, steel-ity
Sectors (Activities) of the Modern Economy
- The stages of the process of producing goods and services: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
o Goods producing vs services
- A. Goods Producing Sector:
o Primary: identification and extraction of raw materials
▪ E.g. agriculture, forestry, mining (including oil and gas), fishing, etc.
o Secondary: transformation into finished products
▪ The manufacturing or industrial sector
▪ E.g. manufacturing, processing, construction, etc.
- B. Service Sector:
o Tertiary: distribution and servicing of goods
▪ Consumer (personal) services: merchants, grocers, retailers, mechanics
etc.
▪ Business services: e.g. doctors, lawyers, architects, eyc.
▪ Sometimes, this is delineated into tertiary (personal), quaternary
(business) and quinary (government)
Economic Sectors and Development:
- Levels of economic development are often correlated with the relative sizes of these
different sectors
o Less developed economies: primary and secondary sectors
o More developed economies: service sector
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Document Summary
Economic base: the set of economic activities upon which a community relies in order to generate income from elsewhere. Broad and varied vs. narrowly focused and dominated. In many cases, the economic base gets reflected in the identity to the community/region: e. g. (cid:862)(cid:373)otor-(cid:272)ity(cid:863), (cid:862)steel-(cid:272)ity(cid:863) The stages of the process of producing goods and services: primary, secondary, tertiary: goods producing vs services. Goods producing sector: primary: identification and extraction of raw materials, e. g. agriculture, forestry, mining (including oil and gas), fishing, etc, secondary: transformation into finished products, the manufacturing or industrial sector, e. g. manufacturing, processing, construction, etc. Service sector: tertiary: distribution and servicing of goods, consumer (personal) services: merchants, grocers, retailers, mechanics etc, business services: e. g. doctors, lawyers, architects, eyc, sometimes, this is delineated into tertiary (personal), quaternary (business) and quinary (government) Consider north america region: primary economic activity: ~1850, secondary economic activity: ~1950, service- based economic activities: 20th and 21st c.
