GEOG 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foreign Direct Investment, Mercosur, Digital Divide
18 May 2017
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Chapter outline: geography, globalization, and distance, overcoming distance, transportation, trade, information. In many instances the friction of distance is decreasing, to the point where some say the world will become frictionless (flat). Time-space convergence: locations converging on each other as technology decreases travel time: transportation, trade, transnationals. Intensification: filling of space: diffusion: spread across space, articulation: development of efficient spatial structures, scale is important. Confederation wouldn"t have been possible in canada without being able to overcome our geography. Had a huge impact in allowing us to transport goods and services within the country and outside of the country through trade: okanagan and transformative transportation overcome distance to eliminate our isolation, transport. Impact: population, agriculture, industry, tourism, migration, social economy. Impossible for the economy to exist without overcoming the friction of distance. These factors included with the means of transportation allow us to be able to trade.
